Vice President Kamala Harris may be famous for her word salads, but the Democratic presidential nominee is a whiz when it comes to rhetorically spackling over the Biden Administration’s failures.

Harris marked the third anniversary Monday of the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan when 13 U.S. service members were killed.

“Today and every day, I mourn and honor them. My prayers are with their families and loved ones. My heart breaks for their pain and their loss.  These 13 devoted patriots represent the best of America, putting our beloved nation and their fellow Americans above themselves and deploying into danger to keep their fellow citizens safe,” she said in a statement.

The 13 Americans represented the best of our nation, but President Biden did not.

The speedy withdrawal from Afghanistan wasn’t just on Biden’s watch, it was at the president’s behest, and against the better judgment of experts. In March, former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and U.S. Central Command retired Gen. Frank McKenzie blamed the Biden administration for the chaotic departure, telling the House Foreign Affairs Committee that it inadequately planned for the evacuation and did not order it in time, it was reported.

The 2021 scene in Kabul was chaos, and it could have been avoided.

“On 14 August, the non-combatant evacuation operation decision was made by the Department of State, and the U.S. military alerted, marshaled, mobilized, and rapidly deployed faster than any military in the world could ever do,” Milley said.

“The fundamental mistake, the fundamental flaw was the timing of the State Department,” Milley said. “That was too slow and too late.”

Harris left that part out, perhaps hoping that few would remember, and fewer still in the media would call her out on the omission.

The Afghans who risked their lives to help America during the 20-year war remember, and they remember who left them high and dry.

A 2022 report by the nonprofit Association of Wartime Allies said the U.S. left behind some 78,000 Afghans who had worked for the American government. The Taliban again rules the country, and that didn’t have to happen, either.

The military had advised that the U.S. keep at least 2,500 service members in Afghanistan to maintain stability. We didn’t, but we did leave some parting gifts, namely about $7 billion of military equipment, according to a 2022 congressionally mandated report from the US Department of Defense viewed by CNN.

Harris left that out of her statement as well. In the Biden-Harris world, everything was, is, and will be fine. All Biden’s decisions were great.

“As I have said, President Biden made the courageous and right decision to end America’s longest war. Over the past three years, our Administration has demonstrated we can still eliminate terrorists, including the leaders of al-Qaeda and ISIS, without troops deployed into combat zones.” she said.

Over the past three years, thanks to the administration’s all-but-open border policy, the Department of Homeland Security has identified over 400 immigrants from Central Asia and elsewhere who crossed into the U.S. as “subjects of concern” because they were brought by an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network, three U.S. officials told NBC News in June.

You won’t hear that, or much else of substance from Harris. But, to paraphrase Sen. Elizabeth Warren, American voters are not stupid.

Editorial cartoon by Steve Kelley. (Creators Syndicate)