Eleven days after President Joe Biden announced he was withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan in what turned out to be a disastrous and humiliating move for the United States, Vice President Kamala Harris smugly acknowledged she was “the last person in the room” when Biden made his decision.
On April 14, 2021, Biden announced, “The United States will begin our final withdrawal — begin it on May 1 of this year.” Then he added, “We will not conduct a hasty rush to the exit. We’ll do it — we’ll do it responsibly, deliberately, and safely. … And the Taliban should know that if they attack us as we draw down, we will defend ourselves and our partners with all the tools at our disposal.”
Retired Gen. Austin Miller, the former top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, had warned the Biden administration that Afghanistan would get “very bad, very fast” when…
