Although the VP boasted in April that she was the last person consulted by Biden about his decision to withdraw US troops, she’s been conspicuously absent from public view since the lightning Taliban offensive defeated the US-backed Afghan government. The official insisted that Harris will remain abreast of developments in Afghanistan. The senior Biden administration official said, “Vietnam today is an increasing partner of the United States. And that’s why the vice president is going.” This will be Kamala Harris’ second trip abroad as Vice President. The defeat handed the Axis powers control of one of the world’s most important shipping routes. Singapore, like Vietnam, witnessed one of the most stunning western military defeats when more than 80,000 men fighting for the powerful British Empire capitulated to a much smaller Japanese army in 1942. Thousands of US citizens are feared stranded in Taliban-held territory, though US officials say they don’t know the exact number. Harris will stop first in Singapore and then in Vietnam, where she’s expected to be peppered with reporter questions on parallels between the US departures from South Vietnam and Afghanistan. He was proven wrong when hordes of Afghan civilians rushed to the Kabul airport to flee the Taliban’s two-week offensive that retook nearly the entire country. President Biden last month said that the US departure from Afghanistan after 20 years of war would not resemble the 1975 fall of Saigon in Vietnam. We’re focused on what’s going on today in Afghanistan and doing everything we can to have the most successful outcome.” Vice President Harris is visiting Asia amid comparisons between Afghanistan and Vietnam. “As Defense Department Spokesman Kirby said the other day, or yesterday, you know, we’re not focused on the history of the Vietnam War. “We don’t want to get bogged down in the historical comparisons,” a senior Biden administration official told reporters this week.

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