"The army collapsed at a breathtaking pace," Merkel said at an
election event. "We had expected the resistance to be stronger."
Merkel said the focus now was on rescuing people from
Afghanistan, but later there would need to be a discussion on
what had or had not been achieved.
The Taliban took over the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday after
a lightning advance across the country which took the West by
surprise.
(Reporting by Andreas Rinke, writing by Tom Sims, editing by
Nick Macfie)
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