The best reason is when we withdrew from Iraq it allowed ISIS to steal trucks, tanks, cannons and weapons from Shiite line soldiers because their officers were defecting to ISIS. With these tanks and other weapons they took Mosul the second largest city in Iraq which then was a city of over 2 million people.
Because of this outcome the U.S. doesn't want the same thing to happen in Afghanistan and to have to send troops back into Afghanistan or have the next elected president have to do that. So, it is much less expensive to maintain one or more bases there so it is easier to send more soldiers if and when they are needed.
However, Pakistan (a nuclear weaponed nation) is where the Taliban hang out and build homes for themselves in some areas with impunity much like Osama Bin Laden hung out in his compound there with 6 women and 20 or more kids for many years before he was outed and shot. So, actually what is allowing the Taliban to still be a problem for Afghanistan is their hideouts in Pakistan like Bin Laden.
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