The bitterly divided government in Kabul is no more after President Ashraf Ghani and some 80 of his ministers and senior government officials fled the Taliban’s swift conquest of the country, the speed and efficiency of which would have put the Nazi Germany's "Blitzkrieg" to shame.

Disastrously faulty intelligence assessments only last week gave Kabul 90 days to fall and had planners drafting an orderly evacuation of thousands of Westerners and their local staff.  All were stunned to see the ...