Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of Germany, said that Germany and Western countries have failed in achieving democracy, women's rights, and other goals in Afghanistan. 

German media, citing Merkel, attribute the failure of the West to a lack of cultural awareness, ethnicism, and drug trafficking in law enforcement. 

Merkel also defended Germany's involvement in the war in Afghanistan in support of the US. German media reported: "The international mission in Afghanistan lasted 20 years. Under the leadership of the US, Germany was also involved from the very beginning — both in a military and in a humanitarian capacity." 

Meanwhile, the Islamic Emirate considers the presence of the United States and its allies in the country over the past two decades to have been wrong. 

Zabiullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Islamic Emirate, said: "Initially, their invasion was a mistake, and participation in the war with the US was another mistake. They should calculate the twenty years they wasted their power. The damages they caused to the Afghan people must be calculated." 

Some experts have differing views on the twenty-year presence of the US and its allies in Afghanistan. 

"For twenty years, Afghanistan was destroyed, they entered with weapons. On the other hand, they said they would eliminate corruption, but with their arrival, for twenty years, some people reached the peak of corruption, and Afghanistan became fragmented. They gained nothing," said Abdul Shukoor Dadras, a political analyst.

 Meanwhile, the United States attacked Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, with the slogan of “Operation Enduring Freedom," and after two decades of military presence in the country, withdrew on August 30, 2021, ending its longest war.