Just so you know.... all of the stuff the feminists made up in the late 1990s to help promote a war in Afghanistan was bullshit. I investigated it all -- every idiotic claim -- back in 2000 before 9-11 had happened. Every claim or almost every part of every claim, was false. I wrote a web site covering it (long since gone). Back then it was easier to disprove a lot of this stuff. For example you could find pictures of the female-only schools that the feminists said didn't exist because the Taliban had outlawed education for girls. For example you could find pages by RAWA (a female Maoist group in Afghanistan) pointing out how crazy the feminist propaganda was --- while they still opposed the Taliban for their traditional conservative / right wing politics.

Feminists made up a bunch of lies about men and then the US government invaded. Afghanistan was the poster child for "we have to bomb because of the women" as a war propaganda tactic.

You should also know that the Taliban were not connected to Al Qaeda or bin Laden or 9-11. They are just a bunch of tradcons who tried to stabilize their country after it had become a place of violence and proxy war between the US and USSR for decades. And like all tradcons they put their women on a pedestal. That's why there's the local tradition of raping young boys for sex. Because women are too pure, too good to just be used for sex. Taliban are sexist but like everyone else they are sexist against men.

The Taliban tried to make a deal with the US government, after 9-11, to send them bin Laden (a foreigner in their country) and the US government repeatedly refused. That shows the Afghan war was nothing to do with 9-11, which I guess is pretty obvious now, but not many saw it back then.

The reason the Taliban have always done well in controlling Afghanistan is because they are popular with the Afghan people. Even if you didn't like their politics they were always better than the alternatives which were foreign occupation or warlordism.

Now I don't have any special insight into the modern Taliban of twenty years later. But I see that they took back their country in just a few days and without firing a shot in anger seemingly. That's insanely good work. But it would have been impossible without huge respect and support by the Afghan people whom they represent. They really appear to have decided that to govern professionally going forward they can't afford to hold a grudge against their political opponents-- the traitors who sided with the foreign occupation and helped subject the country to terror for twenty years. They'll even work with the foreign governments that they have managed to eject from their country finally.

Don't get too used to calling the Taliban the bad guys because the media will probably swing about to calling them the good guys in a few years time as the US government comes to terms with the new reality and seeks to gain influence within Afghanistan.