Ripping off the bandaid hurts whether you do it now or later. It should have been done a lot sooner. The collapse shows just how fucked the notion of “bringing democracy” to Afghanistan was.
Sticking around was just sunk cost fallacy.
If you can do whole house surge protection I'd go that way. I don't have any of my appliances on a surge protector but any electronics that I buy which cost more than a few hundred bucks goes behind a good surge protector.