Reactions across the Middle East to the stunning Taliban victory in Afghanistan have focused mostly on what it says about the United States. For many, it shows how America's standing is diminishing; how the United States has betrayed its allies, leaving behind those who believed its promises - yet more proof that 'those whose only cover is America are naked,' as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak reportedly once said. Some are deliriously convinced the United States 'handed over' Afghanistan to the Taliban as part of a plan to use the Sunni Islamists against Iran.

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