While the country watches in horror as the Taliban quickly takes over Afghanistan, effectively wasting 20 years of effort and billions of dollars Vice President Harris is staying silent. Instead of issuing any statement on the current chaos in the country as Americans and Afghanistan citizens desperately try to flee from Taliban rule harris is urging Americans to get vaccinated.
Townhall reports:
Vice President Kamala Harris has stayed silent as the Taliban completely takes over Afghanistan, seizing control of the presidential palace, and overrunning Bagram Air Base. The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan is warning that people shouldn’t travel to the Kabul airport amid the chaotic scenes as people flood the runway and cling to planes in desperation. U.S. personnel are still trying to be evacuated while the future of translators and other U.S. allies remains bleak.
In fact, all that was heard from Harris’s Twitter account over the weekend as many of these events unfolded was to urge Americans to get vaccinated.
“Please protest yourself and your loved ones – get vaccinated,” she said.
Please protect yourself and your loved ones – get vaccinated.
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) August 15, 2021
Some have speculated that Harris has remained silent on the matter to avoid any blame being placed on her.
Harris was reportedly pressed to give an update on Afghanistan to the American people but refused.
White House source says Kamala Harris could be heard screaming today: “They will not pin this s*** on me!”
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) August 16, 2021
In April, Harris said she was the last one in the room when President Biden discussed plans to withdraw U.S. troops from the country and said she played a major role in the decision.
Politico reported in April:
In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” Harris was asked about being the last person in the room regarding major decisions, something that Biden has said is important to him in his working relationship with the vice president. Harris confirmed that was the case regarding the move to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11.
“This is a president who has an extraordinary amount of courage,” she said, regarding the decision. “He is someone, who I have seen over and over again, make decisions based on what he truly believes … is the right thing to do.”
Harris said that Biden “is acutely aware that it may not be politically popular, or advantageous for him personally; it’s really something to see.”
“I have seen him over and over again make decisions based exactly on what he believes is right,” she noted.
So far, the Biden administration has attempted to place blame on the Trump administration for the crisis in Afghanistan after moving up the timeline for U.S. troops to leave the country.
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