Kamala’s “Joy” Embraces Failure
It’s certainly not reassuring, cautions the WSJ. Perhaps Kamala Harris would be better closing the window she has cracked open on her world views. Not many Americans will want to sneak a peek at this:
From Kamala Harris:
“As I have said, President Biden made the courageous and right decision to end America’s longest war.”
Kamala Harris: No Regrets
Last Monday marked the 3rd anniversary of the terrorist bombing at the Kabul airport that killed 13 Americans trying to defend the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. In. praising Joe Biden as “courageous and right,” VP Kamala gave voters a glimpse at her judgement as a potential Commander in Chief, reports Julian Epstein at the WSJ:
The withdrawal decision was arguably the worst of Mr. Biden’s Presidency, as he ignored the advice of nearly all … advisers that a date-certain, total retreat would likely result in the collapse of the Afghan government and a Taliban takeover.
Keeping a few thousand troops in support of the Afghan forces could have prevented the catastrophe and its consequences.
Joe Biden’s Very Bad Decision
Retired Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, who at the time oversaw Central Command of the Afghan fiasco, spoke recently for a podcast for the School of War:
Host Aaron MacLean: “What do you think the consequences are broadly of the collapse and us not being there?”
Gen. McKenzie (retired):
Well, I think on several levels, I think [Vladimir] Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was directly driven by this. I think the Chinese were emboldened as a result of it. I think that more operationally, I think ISIS-K flourishes now in Afghanistan. The attack in Moscow just a few months ago is only a sign of things to come.
Our ability to actually look into Afghanistan, understand what goes on in Afghanistan, is such a small percentage of what it used to be that it is effectively zero.
So we predicted these things will happen, these things are happening. Our ability to, again, apply leverage here is quite limited.
President Joe Biden was warned about all this, continues Mr. Epstein. Kamala. Harris was also, since she claims to have been in the White House Situation Room, as she likes to say, for all the Biden administration’s major security decisions.
The needless deaths of those 13 Americans were the worst result, but the withdrawal also marked the end of Mr. Biden’s ability to deter adversaries around the world.
That Ms. Harris now embraces this failure suggests more of the same ahead if she wins in November.
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