尽管如此，美国两党都十分支持保留阿富汗军事基地，以此彰显其硬实力，而美俄在乌克兰问题上日趋紧张的冲突更大大增加了这一方案的支持度。
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.