Can the new Taliban gain legitimacy?

After building a house of cards for 20 years, now that the US has left Afghanistan, the country faces an uncertain and chaotically complex future. War-obsessed America, perhaps, couldn’t afford the cost any longer, and they had to take a strategically decisive call to pull out of the country.

On the surface, it may look like a defeat for America, but if we dig a bit deeper, it’s possible to conclude that Afghanistan, and above all the Afghan people, have now succumbed to a new disorder and chaos. It’s quite well known that America hadn’t gone into the country just to nab one man; they had many other strategic reasons. I believe the US has consciously left the field in order to start a new game in global politics which has already begun.

However, going forward, it remains to be seen what steps America is to take in this front.