Joe Biden dismisses Taliban as ‘yesterday’s threats’ as Afghans face executions and rapes amid jihadi carnage
PRESIDENT Joe Biden has dismissed the Taliban as "yesterday's threats" while Afghans face brutal executions and rapes under their barbaric rule.
Biden said he"stands squarely behind" his decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan as .
In a televised address to the nation, he said: "Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation building. It was never supposed to be creating a unified centralized democracy."
"Our only interest in Afghanistan remains today what it has always been, preventing a terrorist attack on America's homeland.
"I have argued for many years that our mission should be narrowly focused on counterterrorism, not counterinsurgency or nation-building.
The President told Americans…
- The US’ 20-year mission was not about “nation building” but hunting down al Qaeda
- Americans should not be “dying in a war that Afghans are not willing to fight themselves”
- Taliban has been warned that any attacks on the US will met with “devastating force”
- Taliban’s rapid advance in Afghanistan "unfolded more quickly than we anticipated”
"That's why I opposed the surge when it was proposed in 2009 when I was vice president.
"That's why as president, I am adamant that we focus on the threats we face today in 2021, not yesterday's threats.
"Today, the terrorist threat has metastasized well beyond Afghanistan."
The President's comments come as Afghans desperately attempt to flee the war-torn country - with thousands risking their lives in the process.
I am adamant that we focus on the threats we face today in 2021, not yesterday's threats.
President Joe Biden
Residents have been left to fend for themselves while Taliban gangs set their sights on children as young as TWELVE as they hunt for sex slaves.
Chilling reports emerged in the wake of Kabul's capture, suggesting the terror group are forcing females into marriage and demanding lists of women and girls.
Under their oppressive rule in the 90s, women were brutalized with cruel tortures and public executions - and it seems jihadists want to return to those ways.
Taliban warlords reportedly view unmarried - or widowed - women and girls aged 12 to 45 as "qhanimat", spoils of war to be divided amongst their fighters.
But he defiantly told reporters that he stands "squarely behind his decision" to withdraw U.S. forces and heaped blame on Afghanistan's president and military leaders.
He said: “The truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated.
"So what's happened?
And Sunday Boris Johnson blamed the US for the advancement of the Taliban in Afghanistan claiming President Biden "accelerated" their control.
The Prime Minister said the "difficult" situation had been exacerbated by the President's decision to withdraw troops from the war-torn country.
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In the wake of a Cobra meeting on Sunday afternoon, Mr Johnson said it was "fair to say the US decision to pull out has accelerated things, but this has in many ways been a chronicle of an event foretold.";
He urged the West to come together to stop Afghanistan again becoming a "breeding ground for terrorism" after the Defence Select Committee chairman warned of terrorist attacks on the West "on the scale of 9/11."