Posted on 08/20/2021 4:37:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has given new urgency to Vice President Kamala Harris’ tour of southeast Asia, where she will attempt to reassure allies of American resolve following the chaotic end of a two-decade war.
The trip, which begins Friday and includes stops in Singapore and Vietnam, will provide a forum for Harris to assert herself more directly in foreign affairs. She will have opportunities to affirm what she and President Joe Biden view as core American values, including human rights. That’s especially important given concerns about the future for women and girls in Afghanistan with the Taliban back in power.
But there are also substantial risks. A longtime district attorney and former senator, Harris is largely untested in international diplomacy and foreign policy. Her swing through Vietnam could draw unwanted comparisons between the humiliating withdrawal of U.S. troops there in 1975 and the tumultuous effort this week to evacuate Americans and allies from Afghanistan. And it’s all happening in the shadow of China, whose growing influence worries some U.S. policymakers.
“She’s walking into a hornet’s nest, both with what’s taking place in Afghanistan, but also the challenge of China that looms particularly large in Vietnam,” said Brett Bruin, who served as global engagement director during the Obama administration and was a longtime diplomat.
She’ll have a fresh chance to make a global impression when she arrives in Singapore, the anchor of the U.S. naval presence in southeast Asia.
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In real news the navy found VP Harris so far in over her head they are seeking bigger and more powerful compressors to get air down to her.
Good grief, AP, get a brain. Do you really think anyone gives a **** about the HO or what she thinks (or pretends to think)?
You have lost all respect. You lost all your good reporters decades ago.
Go find a steep cliff and experience the wonders of gravity.
Oh, and hire someone to clean up the mess at the bottom because the rest of us could care less.
I cringe at the thought that she is representing us anywhere about anything. HO NO
The Fourth Estate has become a Fifth Column.
With Hunter Biden under Scrutiny, Kamalea is the bag lady.
Hopefully she don’t come back.
“She will have opportunities to affirm what she and President Joe Biden view as core American values, including human rights.”
And she will fail in spectacular fashion. What a Charlie foxtrot This administration has wrought.
She’s going to blow it.
She’ll create a mess...
No, of course not her staff. It's the AP!
(do I even need a / sarc tag)
Let’s all hear it for the Rainbow Tour...
Ho is not aging well
You win!!!
Being set up, indeed. She needs to think carefully about Ron Brown before getting on an airplane.
Like a tired, old, worn out rug. With callouses on her knees to match.
She's not up to the task.
I hope they're not thinking of going back to Vietnam, which had the choice between freedom or totalitarian government and they chose poorly. F*** 'em! Not to mention that we're getting awfully close to totalitarian government here.
The article is the AssPress (as in your ass) writing a promo piece for Harris. 100% that’s what it is.
But the Associated Press is a propaganda chop shop for the democRATS.
Without their lying, cover-their-asses press, the democRATS would have been run out of town by now.
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