In Afghanistan three years ago today, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris completed what was arguably the most ignominious capitulation in U.S. history. Harris still defends her administration’s handling of the debacle, but a review of its particulars is in order. The details inspire no confidence in Harris’s judgment on matters diplomatic and military.

Harris once boasted she was the “last person in the room” with Biden when he decided to set a specific date for the withdrawal of all U.S. personnel and was “comfortable” with it. This was to associate herself publicly with the decision and to suggest that she was influential or instrumental in making it happen. Just this week she called it “the courageous and right decision.”