had the US chosen to leave Afghanistan after killing bin Laden, a decade of war would have been avoided, with all the killing associated. The end state would not be dissimilar from the present; maybe the Taliban would get bored of their office jobs sooner and struggle with the tensions of governing.

Afghanistan is a far flung land nobody cared about except some neocons. Gaza is in the immediate proximity to Israel and is viewed by its leaders and most of its citizenry as their divinely gifted territory to rule. The two situations are not comparable in the least

why, did the taliban get bored of running things last time?

something to think about today

Bureaucratic Accelerationism