okay, "bored of their office jobs" and "struggling with the tensions of government" are admittedly flip statements based on reporting of the country post-war. None of that is to suggest the Taliban are anywhere near collapse or that life under the Taliban is good, just that it's the end state we got

Pretty accurate, if the interviews are to be believed tbh

anyway the real reason that this is a limited analogy for Gaza/Sinwar today is not because the US could've left Afghanistan after killing bin Laden, but because Netanyahu's objectives, while couched in retaliation about Hamas, seem far more geared towards population removal and settlement than that.