Anyone who watched the Obama administration closely knows that Joe Biden failed at just about every special assignment given to him by his president — remember stabilizing Iraq and limiting ISIS, the Cancer Moonshot and gun violence reduction? Consequently, when President Biden announced that Kamala Harris would reprise his role as vice presidential problem solver by making her the border security czar, any informed observer could expect a debacle. Foolishness ensued almost immediately.

Having been appointed the president’s point person for border security, most reasonable individuals would immediately head to the border and get some facts and show the public that someone is trying to get a handle on the situation. Not Kamala Harris, she immediately headed to Central America to address the root causes of the immigration problem. That should surprise no one. Ms. Harris is a dyed-in-the-wool progressive, and progressives love root causes. The progressive response to the skyrocketing crime rate in our major cities since the spring of 2020 is to defund police departments and redirect the money to solving the root causes of urban crime. The unprecedented slaughter of young Blacks at the hands of other young Blacks since the George Floyd incident surprised no one but well- meaning progressives.

The Biden-Harris indirect approach to the problem is based on a flawed assumption; that being that the United States can solve the problems of corruption and violent crime that are driving citizens of Central American nations to head for the United States. It apparently is lost on administration strategists that we have spent the last two decades trying to solve the problems of corruption and violence in Afghanistan, and we have failed miserably. Why would anyone reach the conclusion that.................