Our 5th Fleet is headquartered in Bahrain and our C-5s use the country regularly. We are spending $120 million building an airfield in Oman. The present field in Qatar is being expanded. We have the use of fields in Muslim dominated former Soviet Republics. Malaysia has picked up many Al Qaeda. Without the NA, taking Kabul would have been far more costly in American lives.Even Pakistan is doing a better job aiding us than most anyone expected.
The IFC on FR wants us to dump all that. Doing so means more American lives lost and a longer war.