US Should Prepare Itself for More Attacks Thanks to Biden

Former Protection Secretary Leon Panetta has warned that President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan exit technique may result in future terror assaults towards the U.S. because the Taliban now once more guidelines the nation after twenty years of U.S. occupation.

Army forces first entered Afghanistan in late 2001, following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Panetta, who beforehand served because the CIA director, was heading the Protection Division from 2011 to 2013 beneath the Obama administration.

However with final month’s surprising withdrawal, Afghanistan will now once more develop into a haven for terrorists with the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate — and Panetta is breaking with Democrats.

In a teaser for an interview set to be aired Sunday with Greta Van Susteren, Panetta mentioned Afghanistan beneath Taliban rule will “proceed to offer a protected haven for terrorists,” The Hill reported.

“I feel that the Taliban taking on Afghanistan is just about the identical Taliban that managed Afghanistan on 9/11,” Panetta instructed Van Susteren. “And that was just about confirmed not too long ago, once they appointed hardliners to their authorities, individuals who have been in energy on 9/11, and as well as, appointed Haqqani as inside minister, a world terrorist, actually, to be inside secretary and in command of inside safety.”

Panetta isn’t bought on guarantees from the Taliban that it’ll run a safe and dignified nation. He cited the brutality of the group, significantly against women, when talking with Van Susteren.

He definitely doesn’t purchase statements from the militant group that it’ll clamp down on extremism inside its personal ranks and from different teams.

“I’m studying, and people actions and the opposite actions which might be being taken to close down protests and actually inhibit ladies’s rights there, that it is a Taliban that can certainly proceed to offer a protected haven for terrorists, and that spells hassle for the USA,” he mentioned within the yet-to-be aired interview.

Whereas members of the Pentagon have praised the Taliban in latest weeks, Panetta warned “it will be smart for the USA and the remainder of the world to not belief the Taliban by way of their work.”

Panetta, citing a resurgence of al-Qaida, thinks Afghanistan would be the epicenter for one more large-scale assault towards America.

“I don’t suppose there’s any query. There was a latest interview by one of many spokesman for the Taliban, the place he was requested about bin Laden’s function in 9/11, and he had the gall to say that he has not seen any proof that bin Laden was concerned within the 9/11 assault,” he mentioned.

“And if that’s the case, then it’s clear to me that they’re going to proceed to help al-Qaida, and permit al-Qaida to principally proceed to develop and develop.”

“And I feel they may plan further assaults on our nation, in addition to elsewhere,” he cautioned.

Panetta, a lifelong Democrat, has been vital of President Joe Biden’s dealing with of the tip of army operations in Afghanistan.

Final month, in a CNN interview, he predicted the U.S. must put boots on the bottom once more in Afghanistan.

“There’s no query that it’s in all probability Joe Biden’s worst nightmare to lose 13 Marines because of what’s occurred right here,” says former CIA director Leon Panetta of the lethal assaults in Afghanistan.

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“We’re going to have to return in to get ISIS,” he mentioned. “We’re in all probability going to go have to return in when al-Qaida resurrects itself as they may with this Taliban.”

“They’ve [given] protected haven to al-Qaida earlier than. They’ll in all probability do it once more,” he added.