Why Dems Need Jake Sullivan Gone

If moderate Democrats, furious over the disastrous Afghanistan pullout, want to ensure the Biden administration doesn’t produce any more overseas disasters, they should demand the head of National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.

He’s reportedly the only top adviser who fully agreed with the president’s decision to pull out all US forces. More trouble lurks if he stays in the job, reinforcing President Biden’s worst instincts.

A host of less-lefty Dems have been slamming the operation’s execution. Many also wanted Biden to extend his Aug. 31 deadline to allow more evacuations. But now they’re hoping the public fury fades before they have to face the voters.

Problem is, the same team that produced this disaster is all too likely to yield more terrible news, whether it’s vast new bribes to Iran’s rulers to return to the benighted nuclear deal or some now-unforeseeable horror like the 2012 Benghazi attack.

Both of which happen to have Jake Sullivan’s fingerprints all over them: He was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff at the time of the Benghazi attack; when she left government, he moved to the White House and was one of the several officials who met secretly with Iranian counterparts to pave the way for the nuke deal.

And now he’s the yes-man national security adviser who didn’t question his boss’ folly when it came to fleeing Afghanistan and tying the military’s hands with rapiddrawdown demands that forced the abandonment of Bagram.

The White House plainly doesn’t mean to blame anyone (except the last president) for this nightmare. If Democrats in Congress don’t push for the right scalps, more nightmares are all too likely to follow.