Simply from not being anchored in a wasted effort. Beyond being able to more wisely allocate these blown resources more wisely almost however they are spent, including debt service.

We will certainly benefit in general deterrence capability by not being mired in an unwinnable farce. Our ability to. To actually have potential to project an effective force anywhere makes a potential threat think twice.
Dead certainty of how stretched we are potentially means some that may not have been going for blood will take a chance when they smell it in the water. It leads to other powers maneuvering in ways that reduce strategic advantages.

We also stop over extending our troops allowing them to be more effective and less stressed and allows us to stop maintaining and resources to corporate mercenary armies who undermine our security and rule of law far beyond the scope of the rag tag terrorist and US created insurgents (aka people who had no beef till we occupied their country) on principle alone and in real life terms as well with their criminal behavior, dumping money by the ton to people determined to undermine our republic for profit and power, and were growing a heap of power tripping fucknuts who will eventually rotate back here and become abusive cops or work in the private sector as modern day Pinkerton's for nefarious purposes.


Will the Taliban retake the country? Such as they did before or if not them some similar group.

I don't get the relevance of the where aspect of planning an attack or training for one. It can just as easily happen in whole or in part anywhere in the world that isn't locked down and probably in those places too, if need be.

The impact on Pakistan's nuclear weapons is negligible and I'd say obviously beyond our reach in any event. We also are probably more safe by not having our troops attacked by Pakistani funded bands, funded on a pass through basis by us. That's a sure loser and there is almost no way to swim upstream against that kind of flow.

Of course there will be civil war to some degree, just as there is right now and has been for longer than we've been around. However, we can at least reduce the funding for it and certainly get out of the middle of it, reduce the quality of the weapons available, and cease stirring it up.

Some of the people we worked with will prosper well beyond previous hope others will die in horrible midevil fashion in retaliation for some pretty heinous acts themselves.

The women will live like shit on a shoe as they have for centuries, some willingly others desperately struggling and yearning for self determination and a chance for something like a real life.

I see why you'd be hammered for the focus on political blow back, it is deserved to a large extent.
I know that doesn't sound very kind but I get the impression it is the dominant concern and if that is the case it is a rather dangerous and untrustworthy priority system.

The defense is frankness about the situation and if you need a maneuver then you can tie the Republicans in knots by dropping the hammer on their war criminals and corporate scum while quickly firing up big construction projects to show that you're putting people to work and have brought home the bacon.

There is no magic shield to stave off the Republican shit throwing. It's what they do and there will be some howling and crap corporate press. The reality is deal with it like women and men who really are country and people first or cower in the corner like craven pieces of runny pigshit until the Republicans take power and are forced to shut it down themselves and we can tell protest stories to our kids and grandchildren in the comfort of our tent cities and indigents farms and swallow the shame of our cowardice when we held the strings and our regret at the costs of our calculation.

Also, I fail to see why the blowback will cause us to lose power or any guarantee that if we pour our young people's blood and many year's worth of treasure into a quagmire that we will retain it.

The pursuit of the permanent majority is some serious folly and ducking shadows in a vain effort to hold on to it can lead to worse errors than even the worst intentions will fall well short off in damage to our nation and values.

The "shrewd" calculation will undo us quicker than getting slapped down for serving the best interest of our people.