Har­ris’ role in Afghanistan with­draw­al a mys­tery despite being ‘last per­son in the room’ with Biden

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris’ influ­ence on the botched with­draw­al of U.S. troops from Afghanistan remains unclear pub­licly despite her pre­vi­ous­ly con­firm­ing she was the “last per­son in the room” with Pres­i­dent Biden before he made the deci­sion. Accord­ing to a new Wash­ing­ton Post report, offi­cials say Har­ris did not push for pol­i­cy change but did raise some impor­tant ques­tions dur­ing inter­a­gency meet­ings in ear­ly 2021 before what result­ed in a chaot­ic 17-day evac­u­a­tion from Kab­ul and a sui­cide bomb­ing that killed 13 U.S. ser­vice mem­bers and rough­ly 170 Afghan civil­ians at Hamid Karzai Inter­na­tion­al Air­port’s Abbey Gate,.The vice pres­i­dent, now the Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee, act­ed “like a dis­trict attor­ney” while ask­ing ques­tions dur­ing the delib­er­a­tions but did not pro­vide much insight into what she was think­ing, one senior mil­i­tary offi­cial who spoke on con­di­tion of a …