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As the American withdrawal from Afghanistan is due to be completed on 31 August, what鈥檚 next for the country and for those Afghans who stayed behind?

Kate Clark is director of the Afghan Analysts Network, and former 蜜芽传媒 correspondent in Kabul. She told Newsday:

鈥淚n some ways the Taliban are worse than in the 90s. The Taliban have deep grievances about how they think they were treated in terms of families and comrades lost in air strikes, and how power was stolen from them in 2001, so there is a lot more capacity for revenge this time.

鈥淗ow are they going to run the country? A big bearded mullah with a long beard is running sports now and education. They don't have the technical expertise. We have just had this massive brain drain through the evacuation. A lot of the technical people are not there anymore to run the tax or the IT system.鈥�

Photo: A Taliban fighter stands guard at a Taliban meeting about general higher education policies (Getty Images)