People inherently understood the need to keep American troops in Europe and Japan after WWII. Perhaps someone, anyone can explain the reason from the American perspective why young Americans must continue to make the ultimate sacrifice in that land dedicated to the customs and values of the 9th century.
personally , I think we need to bring all our ground forces out right away , not the end of next year . Then use long range drones to keep an eye on the whole place , and run air strikes off of carriers or from Diego Garcia if any Taliban concentrations present themselves . We should never let up on the Taliban . They need to be wiped off the face of the earth . Screw collateral damages as well . Get the ground forces out of there so there are no more ROEs on them . Pure air power
If we leave it's probable that China and/or Russia will move in. That means increased tensions with India.
If you think a war between China or Russia and India has no repercussions for us, you're mistaken. You're talking about MORE tensions for us, not less.