Andrea C. Hoffmann, Middle East expert with German weekly magazine Focus, who believes that: "The US is facing a huge credibility problem among its allies and local staff."

 

 

 

Christoph von Marschall, senior diplomatic correspondent with Berlin's Tagesspiegel newspaper, who argues: "The West's almost missionary zeal to create a better world was a key factor in its failure in Afghanistan."

 

 

US journalist and former Afghanistan correspondent Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, who now leads the podcast "Common Ground", says: "The many educated Afghan women and girls could end up creating big problems for the Taliban."