So a more appropriate term here might be cult of personality, a la Stalin, Hitler or Mao versus just cult with the more recent inference of Koresh, Jim Jones or others.
What if Osama was hired by the Taliban specifically to track down and kill the opposition like the followers of Masood?
That being said, in this case, propping these opposition groups up will give us a less likely chance of a blowback of bin Laden proportions. After all, they were the ones who lost Kabul to the Taliban and al-Queda.
The key to this fight though are the women. That’s right, they have to particularly support and protect the women in Afghanistan much more vigorously, otherwise there will be more sons in the regions who will ask why the great US didn’t do anythig to protect their mothers.