Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming had a perfect rejoinder for the misdirectional pettifoggery of national security adviser Jake Sullivan on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday.

Sullivan’s entire appearance consisted of weak excuse-making, but he inadvertently admitted that actual events in Afghanistan had proved that President Joe Biden’s claim of having prepared for “every contingency” was nonsense. Without directly acknowledging the obvious truth that of course the current horrors were not a contingency for which Biden had adequately prepared, Sullivan said that “no plan survives first contact with reality.”