Kamala Harris has bragged in the past about being “the last person in the room” when Joe Biden made his disastrous decision to pull out of Afghanistan in 2021. Since beginning her presidential campaign, however, she and her surrogates have tried to run away from her role as VP and pretend she wasn’t really border czar and actually didn’t have that much say in decisions.

The reality is that she was all in on the Biden agenda—including Afghanistan. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was the latest to take to the airwaves to defend her atrocious record, appearing Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" with host Dana Bash. While he’s quite adept at filling airtime with an onslaught of words, he never really answers the question: does Kamala own this?

BASH: In 2021, the vice president told me that she was the last person in the room on that decision and she was comfortable with the outcome. I want to make clear that was before the actual withdrawal happened, just after the decision was made.
 
Tomorrow, we expect the House Foreign Affairs Committee to release the findings of its three-year investigation into what happened. How does Kamala Harris defend what we all saw?
 
BUTTIGIEG: First of all, of course, I haven't seen what's in the report coming out tomorrow, but I do have a question about what they're doing over there.
 
If they have had three years to assess what happened, why are they delivering a report after Labor Day in a presidential election year? I think it really feeds in to a sense that this is something they're using as a political football. [Emphasis mine.]

Investigating the senseless deaths of 13 U.S. servicemembers is hardly a political football, Mayor Pete.

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Pete Buttigieg dismisses accountability over the botched Harris-Biden Afghanistan withdrawal — which killed 13 U.S. service members — as a "political football."

Kamala bragged about being the last person in the room for the disastrous decision. pic.twitter.com/LMreDATjSp

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 8, 2024

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Bash reiterated that the tragedy was a “political problem for the Biden administration” and asked, “So how does Kamala Harris address that, since she was vice president?” Buttigieg went on an extended monologue that basically said, “We'll just hope it doesn’t happen again.”

Normally I would edit this, but I'm leaving it as is to give you a sense of what a windbag the man is:

BUTTIGIEG: Well, I think however you view the things that are going to emerge in the report, what's clear is that this -- America's longest war needed to be brought to an end.

And the question at stake in every presidential election is what's going to happen next. She is clear about the need to make sure that a place like Afghanistan never again becomes a haven for attacks on the homeland.

That's a counterterrorism policy and posture that is different from an open-ended presence over there, but also with all of the threats that America faces, whether it's making sure that Afghanistan is never again base for an attack on the homeland, whether it's what's going on in the Middle East, whether it's what's happening with China, whether it's the latest evidence of Russian interference in our own affairs or any number of other issues.

We need to make sure that the next president of the United States is somebody who is equipped to handle that with a view toward what is best for the American people and what is best for America's troops, not somebody who is obsessed with what is best for him, which I think is exactly what we're going to see on display from Donald Trump in the debate in a couple of days.

Man, the dude can ramble! I thought the question was, "So how does Kamala Harris address that, since she was vice president?" If there was an answer in there, I sure didn't hear it.

This is the kind of empty-suit bureaucrat that we can expect if, God forbid, there ever is a Harris administration. Lots of sounds and fury, signifying nothing. No thanks.