Notice how opportune this is for globohomo. Instead of getting their remaining people out, the bombing can effectively serve as an excuse for attempting to delay ('we've been interrupted, we need more time!') as well as an excuse for taking more Afghans with them ('See! There really is a threat! So we must take more Afghans!). Two birds with one stone. The Islamic State, who I've barely heard anything about in two years, suddenly seem to be wheeled out yet again right on time to serve a role as a bogeyman to justify staying longer and taking more people.

Indeed, I can't even figure out what Islamic State's Wilayat Khorasan branch would do this for, as it doesn't seem to benefit them in any obvious way at all. Surely they understand that it will at the very least encourage the West to stay longer, and at most, it may lead Western states to overcome their general aversion to war and decide that they need to re-enter for some time. What's the word for things like this? 'False flag' is one. How about 'gay op'?

I guess the closest explanation I can come up with is that maybe they know that those trying to flee tend towards being the worst type of Afghans (trannies, queers, feminists) and they want to get as many of these people as they can before they escape to the West where they'll be beyond reach. Either way, Afghanistan (part of Wilayat Khorasan in IS' terminology) would be rid of them whether they were killed or not, and it seems like letting them fly away is less risky. They believe that Allah will cast them all eventually into Hell anyway, so it does not make much sense to take such a large risk just to send them there sooner.

There's essentially a nationalist Islamism against a colourblind globalist Jihadism clash here. Islamic State is extreme-Left on race (I read recently that they burned all books in Mosul University back in 2014-16 that contained mentions of race or ethnicity, although such works weren't their only targets), whereas the Taliban are essentially "Pashtun First".

I'll be paying attention to how the Taliban change the education system in Afghanistan. They definitely have a 'Gender Studies' program in Kabul University (see: https://web.archive.org/web/20201023003233/https://feminist.org/news/kabul-university-to-open-first-gender-studies-program-in-afghanistan/), and I'm sure that it will be one of those fields abolished and everyone involved in propagating it in serious trouble. Good riddance. Islamic State removed almost all of higher education excepting a few hard science fields like chemistry (in Mosul University, they tried to turn the chemistry faculty into a chemical weapons production plant) at the universities they controlled in Iraq/Syria. The Humanities and Social Sciences were basically abolished with the obvious exception of Islamic Studies. Most of those fields are certainly no loss—'Gender Studies', 'Black Studies' and 'Indigenous Studies' are clearly unscientific, are not accepted as sciences even in today's Clown World, and should be axed everywhere. The rest of the Social Sciences and Humanities also need a serious clean-up. If you've ever studied Sociology you'll know the whole field has shifted from Far-Right to Far-Left over the course of its 170 or so years of existence.