President Joe Biden says there is a “significantly greater” threat from al-Qaeda and its affiliated groups in other countries than the Taliban in Afghanistan as he defended his administration’s turbulent withdrawal. In an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Biden stressed that the United States should shift its focus on places where terrorist threats are considered the greatest. “There is a significantly greater threat to the United States from Syria … East Africa,” the president said on Wednesday. “There is a significantly greater threat from other places in the world than from the mountains of Afghanistan.” “We should be focusing on where the threat is the greatest,” he said. “We can continue to spend a trillion dollars, and have tens of thousands of American forces in Afghanistan, when we have North Africa and Western Africa—the idea we can do that and ignore those looming problems, growing problems, is not rational.” Biden also …