I think the Taliban used it as an opportunity to try to egg their supporters into an impromptu (Vietnam-style) Tet offensive. That it fizzled out so quickly is a good sign - the clearest indication yet of the Taliban’s near-death condition (in contrast to all the defeatist rhetoric circulating in the past year or so). The Tet offensive killed 4,000 Americans. This Koranic Tet offensive has killed perhaps a dozen. The bottom line is this - the only people who participated in the riots are the Taliban’s supporters, and only a few thousand of them participated in a country of 30m people. In contrast, anywhere from 300K to 500K Vietcong were involved in the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. These vermin boast of loving death as we love life. The truth is that they love to boast of loving death while doing everything to avoid it, including avoiding attacks on American civilians at every opportunity, for fear of massive retaliatory attacks by our military.
543 American soldiers were KIA the week of the Tet Offensive. The 4,000 you refer to (a little low btw) is America and it’s allies, i.e. SVA