House Homeland Security Committee ranking member Rep. John Katko warned that Afghanistan could become the 'world headquarters of terrorism.'
Biden, during his speech, said he is"adamant we focus on the threats we face today in 2021, not yesterday's threats," saying that the terrorist threat has"metastasized well beyond Afghanistan."
He added:"The threat, when you are allowing the world headquarters to be created for one of your threats of the past, it becomes a current threat. No doubt about it."Biden, on Monday, admitted that the fall of the country to the Taliban"did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated." "We gave them the chance to determine their own future," he said."What we could not provide them was the will to fight for that future."
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