Secure Freedom Minute

Harry Truman’s presidency became for millions of Americans the answer to the question “Who lost China?” On his watch, enemies foreign and domestic cut off U.S. support for a friendly Chinese government, enabling Mao Zedong’s murderous take-over. 
Today, the answer to “Who lost South Korea?” may be Donald Trump unless he intervenes swiftly. 
After all, on his watch, a Communist there named Lee Jae Myung stole an election and is tyrannically transforming the country domestically and aligning it with our Chinese and North Korean enemies. 
Former Trump Ambassador Morse Tan has bravely opposed Lee’s election fraud and freedom-wrecking operation. He’s stuck in South Korea and under indictment for defaming the tyrant.
Before worse happens to Amb. Tan, the people of South Korea and our vital interests there, President Trump must forcefully engage directly with Lee Jae-Myung. There’s not a moment to lose.
This is Frank Gaffney.

There would never be a good time to lose as keen and courageous a Middle East hand as Shoshana Bryen. But this is a particularly bad moment, when America desperately needs deeply knowledgeable and well-grounded experts on that region’s troubled history, dynamics and often tragic missteps. 
Unfailingly, this late and longtime Senior Director of the Jewish Policy Center would address with clarity the vexing intersection of U.S. interests, challenges to Israel’s survival and the treachery of so-called Mideast allies like Qatar, Turkey and Pakistan. She would do so calmly, creatively and with a sort of gallow’s humor, speaking truth to power, whether solicited or not. 
Despite long-running health challenges, Shoshana served as a singular mentor, inspiration and resource for generations of legislators and other senior officials, academics and influential patriots. She will long and lovingly be remembered and deeply missed.
This is Frank Gaffney.  

Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz has put into sharp relief both the costs of modern war in the age of proliferating drones and a fundamental principle dating to the beginning of our Republic.
From the get-go, Americans have fought and died defending freedom of navigation imperiled by British warships and Barbary pirates seizing our vessels and their crews.
Now, Iran’s allies in Yemen and China are also threatening that principle in the Red Sea’s Bab-el-Mandeb and in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea, respectively. 
Much rides on whether we’ll demonstrate the ability to restore deterrence of such modern day piracy, or as some on Capitol Hill are demanding, cut and run. There will be few places to run – or sail – to if freedom of navigation is no longer exercised by us and our friends.
This is Frank Gaffney.

Each day offers new examples of America’s pell-mell rush to join Western European nations in surrendering to Islam’s stealthy conquest:
Democratic primaries across the country are nominating sharia-supremacists or Marxist-jihadists like Zohran Mamdani, largely thanks to Muslim bloc-voting.
Churches that are not mysteriously catching fire are being bought and transformed into mosques.
Farms and other properties are turning into Muslim-only communities – and, predictably, future no-go zones – like the notorious EPIC City in Texas. 
Now, Democratic legislators in Massachusetts want to establish a permanent “Government Islam Commission” to promote Muslims for state jobs and otherwise advance their sharia-adherent agenda. 
Unsurprisingly, such serial accommodations are emboldening the jihadists here, causing them to espouse ever more openly America’s submission to sharia.
It’s high time we say “No.” BanSharia.com.
This is Frank Gaffney.

Last night, the President of the United States addressed the nation to disclose previously classified evidence of enemies, both foreign and domestic, colluding to sabotage the 2020 presidential election. 
Particularly egregious is the Chinese Communist Party’s unrestricted electoral warfare aimed at terminating Mr. Trump’s presidency and replacing him with Joe Biden, who has accurately been described as a “controlled asset” of the CCP. 
Even more shocking are the findings of multiple official investigations that revealed intelligence and law enforcement agencies’ complicity in concealing such evidence from the Commander-in-Chief and his senior subordinates with a need-to-know of these enemy attacks and cover-ups. 
President Trump deserves great credit for insisting that this information be made available to the American people and their elected representatives while there is still time to take corrective action before the November mid-term elections. 
Make it so. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, President Trump spoke at a defense and innovation summit in Pennsylvania about the need for both, and his commitment to reshoring and rebuilding the nation’s industrial base. 
Unfortunately, events half-a-world-away are underscoring the necessity, as one summit participant put it, “to supercharge the supply chains” so as to accelerate the translation of defense innovation into production into deployed weapon systems.
Not only are we rapidly exhausting our dwindling supply of advanced weapons in Iran. It’s no coincidence, comrade, that Communist China is simultaneously flooding the Western Pacific with warships, coast guard vessels, maritime militia and armed fishing boats as it asserts ownership of international waters and puts in place the makings of a blockade or quarantine of Taiwan.
To paraphrase the money quote from Jaws: We’re going to need a bigger boat – and lots of them – and right quick.
This is Frank Gaffney.