Dennoch besteht in den USA massive parteiübergreifende Unterstützung für die Erhaltung von Militärbasen in Afghanistan als Mittel zur Ausübung harter Macht.
Nonetheless, there is strong bipartisan support in the US for maintaining military bases in Afghanistan, as a means of projecting hard power, and the increasingly charged confrontation between the US and Russia over Ukraine has boosted that support considerably.