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patkaren1717 No, it wasn't. It was an attempt to apply the law that didn't go as planned due to Koresh's decision to kill himself and take as many of his followers with him as possible. He could have ended it by just sending everyone out an surrendering, but he wanted his end of time apocalypse, and he got it.
A "political move" would be one calculated to gain favor with the public, like Trump's wall or the China tariffs. Waco was a disaster for the feds. At least they learned from their mistakes; when the criminal Cliven Bundy had the standoff at his ranch, Obama didn't order the agents in; they just waited. Same when his gang took over that building in Oregon; the feds just waited until the boys ran out of beef jerky and Cheetos, and came out on their own.
The "insurgencies" and so-called "resistance" in the US today are composed of people who are too stupid and incompetent to plan anything workable, so the best strategy is to just watch and wait because they'll eventually give up.