Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the
Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on
the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
āWere you the last person in the room?ā CNNās Dana Bash asked Kamala Harris.
āYes,ā Kamala Harris nodded.
āAnd you feel comfortable?ā
āI do,ā she replied.
The subject under discussion was Bidenās disastrous decision to pull
out of Afghanistan, preceding a civilian withdrawal with a military
pullout, failing to coordinate with allies, and ultimately creating the
nationās greatest hostage crisis while arming the Taliban terrorists.
Kamala had boasted of being the ālast person in the roomā when Biden
makes big decisions. When Biden decided to betray Americans and aid the
Taliban, it was no different. Afterward the ālast person in the roomā
was also the last person to want to answer questions about her role in
the fateful decision that killed 13 American military personnel and
revived Al Qaeda.
After the Taliban seized Kabul, leaving Americans stranded behind
enemy lines, Kamala ducked questions and left the country. When a
reporter tried to ask her about the Americans left behind in Afghanistan
before her flight, she giggled and replied that they couldnāt be a
āhigher priorityā.
And then she flew off to Singapore where she toured flower gardens
and had an orchid named after her while Americans were being beaten by
the Taliban in the streets of Kabul.
Kamala also took time out to meet with Halimah Yacob, Singaporeās
first female Muslim president, selected in a rigged election with no
opposing candidates in which only Malaysians could compete, and to show
off another outfit by leftist Singaporean fashion designer Prabal Gurung
who had falsely claimed that, āanti-blackness that is woven into the
DNA of Americaā.
After having done her part to disgrace America in Singapore, Kamala
tried to duck questions about what was happening to the Americans she
had left behind as hostages in Afghanistan.
Despite Singapore penning up reporters in a separate room and forcing
them to ask questions remotely, she still had to face questions about
what was happening in Afghanistan. Kamala tried to avoid responsibility,
arguing that, āthereās going to be plenty of time to analyze what has
happenedā and assured the press that āwe are singularly focused on
evacuating American citizens, Afghans who worked with us.ā By the time
the evacuation had concluded, many of the Americans and the vast
majority of the Afghans had been left behind under Taliban rule.
While Kamala Harris was happy to take credit for Bidenās Afghanistan
policy and to put her stamp of approval on it when it seemed like a good
idea, sheās been running from it ever since. Whether itās dodging
reporters or flying off to Asia, she doesnāt want to be the last person
in the room anymore. But itās much too late for Kamala to pretend that
she had nothing to do with it.
As the ālast person in the roomā, Kamala Harris had made a point of
taking a prominent seat at nearly every intelligence and security
briefing. And though she only holds down the second spot, she is in some
ways more culpable for the disastrous moves in Afghanistan than Biden.
Kamala Harris visited Afghanistan more recently than Biden as part of a Senate Intelligence Committee oversight trip. As a Committee member during the years that
Biden was out of office, she had access to classified information that
he did not. While there were plenty of recent reports warning of an
imminent collapse in Afghanistan, she would have been seeing reports for
four years before Biden and had a clearer picture of recent
developments in the country.
And, unlike Biden, she canāt plead dementia.
Nor was Kamala just deferring to her boss. During her visit to
Afghanistan in 2018 and during her failed presidential primary campaign,
she laid out essentially the same positions as Biden.
In 2019, Kamala Harris went on MSNBCās leftist Rachel Maddow gabfest
to attack President Trumpās withdrawal plan as irresponsible and fumed
that a commander in chief has to āunderstand the seriousness and the
severity of one`s decisionsā.
Thereās no apparent sign that Kamala understands the seriousness and
severity of turning the Taliban into the heaviest armed Sunni Jihadist
group on the planet or of betraying our allies.
āI was in Afghanistan days before he made that decision, and, Rachel,
when I was there, I spoke with generals and I spoke with troops. There
was an active conversation happening around negotiating what should be
the future of Afghanistan. And then out of nowhere, the president makes
his decision. It was irresponsible,ā she whined on MSNBC.
Did any of the troops tell her to cut and run while leaving thousands of Americans behind?
Every promise that Kamala made, that the evacuations of Americans
would be the āhighest priorityā, that she would bring American soldiers
home āresponsiblyā, that she would āensure that the country is on a path
to stability, that we protect the gains that have been made for Afghan
women and others, and that it never again becomes a safe haven for
terroristsā were broken.
Even as the Taliban were forcing young girls to marry their
terrorists, Kamala was telling reporters in Vietnam not to worry because
she had spent her āentire career on the protection of women and
children.ā
Considering she had actually spent her career covering for the likes of Willie Brown, Bob āFilthyā Filner who got the Jeffrey Epstein special from
her office, along with āone of her closest professional confidantesā
who was accused of sexually harassing his assistant, not to mention Joe
Biden, thatās almost as implausible as her claim that Afghanistan was
her highest priority even while being named godmother to an orchid in
Singapore.
When the Biden-Harris administration abandoned Americans in
Afghanistan, the stranded included 8 San Diego families and 21 local
students. A local school district went to work to help them. Kamala
Harris ignored her former constituents as she had all the others trapped
there.
In September, after Biden fled and left Americans behind, and Kamala
claimed that she could be trusted because she had built her āentire
career on the protection of women and childrenā, a school liaison warned that,
āwe still have thousands of families, invisible families, who are still
stuck in Afghanistan, who are U.S. passport holders, green card
holders, SIV holders.ā
The one politician working on the issue was a Republican congressman
who declared, āThe Biden administration left them behind and we didnāt
rest until they were on their way home.ā
A father who made it out with 5 kids thanked the Marines. He made no mention of Kamala.
Kamala Harris had spent her career betraying the people she claimed
to be helping. Afghanistan is just one more chapter in her disgraceful
biography. It deserves to be the last.
Biden claimed that Kamala Harris is āthe last voice in the room and
never fails to speak the truth.ā What ātruthā did Kamala speak when
Biden made a series of disastrous decisions that cost the lives of
American military personnel and the freedom of American civilians?
When Biden allowed the Taliban to take Kabul and screen those
Americans and Afghans who were allowed to reach the airport through
their checkpoints, what did Kamala have to offer?
When the Haqqani Network, allies of Al Qaeda, controlled Kabul, the
checkpoints, and access to the airport for fleeing Americans, did Kamala
utter a single word of protest to Joe Biden?
She was ācomfortableā with it. And she still is.
Biden claimed that this would be the Biden-Harris administration.
Kamala would be his partner in all things, handling calls with foreign
leaders, leading diplomatic missions, and tackling crises.
As his partner, she deserves an equal share of the responsibility and the accountability.
āThe President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United
States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction
of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors,ā Article
II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution states.
Kamala Harris violated the trust and duty of her office by engaging
in behavior whose consequences were foreseeable to a former member of
the Senate Intelligence Committee and the second highest elected
official in the country with access to classified intelligence. The
collapse of the Afghan government, the Taliban takeover of the country,
and the fall of Kabul were not unexpected developments, but ones that
plenty of people, the vast majority of whom had no access to
intelligence briefings, predicted based on past and current events.
Kamala Harris attacked President Trumpās Afghanistan plan as
irresponsible and claimed that she had a better plan. The entire world
has seen the Biden-Harris withdrawal plan in action.
And is horrified by it.
Americaās enemies are gloating and our allies are fearfully backing
away. China is threatening Taiwan, Iran is accelerating its nuclear
program, and Americans are being taken hostage in Haiti and Venezuela.
America is in danger and the risk of war is growing because of Kamala.
A military setback is not itself an impeachable offense, but
knowingly abandoning Americans and advanced military equipment to the
Taliban are. When the Biden-Harris administration chose to put a
military pullout ahead of a civilian one for political reasons, they
turned a military retreat into the nationās worst hostage crisis,
destroyed our credibility, and disgraced our nation.
āThere is going to be plenty of time to analyze what has happened and
what has taken place in the context of the withdrawal from
Afghanistan,ā Kamala told reporters in Singapore.
The time is long since past. And the best way to begin is with an impeachment inquiry.
The Biden-Harris administration has made it clear that it will not
cooperate with an ordinary investigation. The media, which was briefly
critical when its reporters were under fire, has gone back to carrying
the corrupt administrationās water. Impeachment hearings will remind the
public of what happened and an inquiry will help make it clear who in
the administration knew what.
And when they knew it.
Dead American military personnel and American civilians trapped
behind enemy lines deserve the truth. And they deserve an accountability
that begins with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Impeachment wonāt bring back the dead, but it will ensure that Kamala and her boss donāt get any more Americans killed.