The vice president says she was the last person in the room to advise President Biden when he decided earlier this year to pull out from Afghanistan.
, he was accompanied by Steve Ricchetti, one of a handful of confidants the president is known to lean on most heavily as a sounding board.
She did not mention the issue in her 2019 memoir, nor include it in her presidential campaign stump speech.The vice president has expressed a general skepticism of lengthy foreign engagements that may have been inculcated when, as a girl in Berkeley, she saw her mother march in anti-Vietnam War protests.
And although the withdrawal has been tumultuous and the toll on the Afghan people will probably be costly, Americans have long favored ending the conflict, and Biden and Harris may end up benefiting politically from the decision to withdraw.that would have rescinded the 2001 authorization to use force throughout the region.
If anyone understands Harris’ predicament it is Biden. As vice president, he was tethered to another president’s policy in Afghanistan. Unlike Harris, he has long tried to make it known that he disagreed with President Obama’s decision to send in a surge of 30,000 additional troops in 2009 and instead would have opted for a drawdown.
That is why it didn’t surprise foreign policy experts when Biden, who spent the 2020 campaign sharply criticizing then-President Trump’s policies, followed through on plans laid by Trump to pull out U.S. forces this year.Most vice presidents maintain a more dutiful posture. Mike Pence, who served a tumultuous four years under Trump, spent four years praising the president in such hyperbolic terms that he drew ridicule.
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