Secure Freedom Minute

Don't Enable Turkey's Jihadist Empire-building

Turkey’s Islamist proxies have seized most of Syria. Now it wants an end to U.S. and other international sanctions on an al Qaeda-linked group controlling much of that long-suffering country. Those include a 10 million dollar bounty on its leader, known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, for the murder of Americans, among others.
A multi-national delegation is in Damascus today, presumably for that purpose. After all, the Biden administration lavished money and arms on another bunch of Sharia-supremacists with American blood their hands when the Taliban seized Afghanistan.
Acceding to the Turks’ plans to have jihadists next dominate post-Assad Syria would help them create a neo-Ottoman empire there and far beyond. To that end, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is preparing to exterminate Syria’s Kurds and possibly others.
We must stand squarely against, not effectively greenlight, such further crimes against humanity.
This is Frank Gaffney.

With Ruthie Bloom, David Walsh & Philippe Karsenty

Ruthie Bloom, Columnist at JNS
I spoke with Ruthie Bloom from Israel about the state of the war Israel is currently engaged in against Iran and its various proxies, including most recently very, very devastating attacks against the so-called Houthi rebels in Yemen in the aftermath of continuing attacks by them against the Jewish state.
What is coming next? The open question with respect to a so-called ceasefire in Gaza and the ambitions of jihadis now in charge of Syria and perhaps headed towards Jordan and maybe even Israel itself.
David Walsh, President, The Takota Group
I spoke with Dave Walsh about the Biden administration's latest example of comporting itself as though it's not going anywhere, making pronouncements about greenhouse gas emissions for the next 10 years and further pouring money in the form of various subsidies into electrification schemes that will not meet the requirements of the future, nor provide the reliable grid we absolutely must have.
Philippe Karsenty, Author of “2017, dernière chance avant le grand remplacement”
I spoke with Philippe Karsenty of France about developments in his country, ranging from the arsonist's attacks against, it appears, Notre Dame to many other sacred places, churches, cathedrals, and the like throughout the country. The Islamists who seem to be behind many of them, as well as other problems that France is now confronting, possibly giving rise to conditions that will translate into real crises in the nation, perhaps even civil war, according to some.
We also talked about other political developments in that nation, whether Francois Macron will fall from power altogether and the emergence of his new prime minister as possibly a force to be reckoned with; much interest there and much to continue to monitor.

Is Team Biden Not Going Anywhere?

The Biden administration committed yesterday to reduce U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases by 66 percent over the next decade.
You might be forgiven for thinking that whoever’s running our country at the moment didn’t get the memo that their team lost the election, with voters soundly repudiating its radical policies with respect to climate change and the rest of the left’s wrecking operation against America.
Indeed, as a powerful webinar conducted Tuesday by our Committee on the Present Danger: China made clear, the outgoing administration is seemingly doing everything it can to undermine, or at least countermand, the mandate Donald Trump is supposed to begin fulfilling a month from tomorrow.
The bottom line is that Team Biden is behaving as though it isn’t going anywhere. The question occurs: Is it deliberately fostering chaos-inducing conditions, here and abroad, calculated to postpone the inauguration?
This is Frank Gaffney.

With Caroline Glick & Col. Grant Newsham

Caroline Glick, Host of The Caroline Glick Show
Caroline Glick and I discussed what Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey is doing to exploit what he and his surrogates have accomplished in the seizure of Syria, whether Jordan is next, and what it means for Israel and the rest of the region for that matter. We also discussed the prospects for a ceasefire in Gaza and the folly of aiding the Palestinian Authority with funds or with funds, to say nothing of arms. We also discussed the plight of Gal Luft, a mutual friend who is being very badly mistreated for having revealed Joe Biden and his family's crimes in connection with a Chinese intelligence front doing business as an oil company.
Col. Grant Newsham, Contributor, Gatestone Institute
Colonel Grant Newsham and I had a far-reaching conversation, wide-ranging conversation, let me say, about several aspects of the national security posture of the United States, including the dangers of an open border, the apparent recruitment of Chinese nationals into our military, some of them at least, seemingly having come here illegally for possibly very maligned purposes.
We also talked about drones and other unexplained things that are happening at the moment that should be of great concern to our military certainly, but also to our citizens. And they're not being told the truth, eroding confidence in our government in the process.
We also discussed the developments in South Korea that put very much in play the prospect of an untimely end to one of our most important strategic partnerships with the South Korean government and perhaps a huge advance for the Chinese Communist Party and its North Korean proxies seeking not only to end that alliance but also to dominate the peninsula and for that matter specific of the world.

Paging Trump - Oppose Erdogan Now

The prime-mover behind the toppling of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad was another, de facto dictator: Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He is poised to become its principal beneficiary, as well.
During the Cold War, Turkey was ruled by governments that, while Muslim, aligned their country with the West, securing NATO’s southern flank against Soviet aggression. Unfortunately, that alliance has no mechanism for expelling a nation now ruled by a Sharia-supremacist like Erdogan, allied with today’s existential threat to freedom, Communist China and set on its own aggressive agenda aimed at establishing a neo- Ottoman empire and destroying Israel.
Paging President-elect Donald Trump. The ability you demonstrated in your first term to wrangle Recep Erdogan is needed now, before he creates facts on the ground that will be a festering sore for your next one, and for the entire Middle East.
This is Frank Gaffney.

With Major General Joe Arbuckle & Peter Mcilvenna

Major General Joe Arbuckle, Major General, U.S.Army (Ret.)
Major General Joe Arbuckle and I spoke about a new initiative by Flag Officers for America supporting the nomination of Pete Hegseth to be the next Secretary of Defense and why all of us should support that nomination to save our military from the wrecking operation to which it's been subjected by cultural Marxists and other enemies, foreign and domestic.
Peter Mcilvenna, Heart of Oak Podcast
I visited with Peter Mcilvenna about the state of freedom in the United Kingdom and the rather draconian steps being taken by the government of Prime Minister Sturmer to restrict, particularly, freedom of speech in ways seemingly very similar to the punishment of January 6th defendants in this country. We also talked about elections coming in France and Germany, as well as the prospects that the European Union itself may be a victim of rising popular nationalism and populist nationalism. 
We discussed something called the Corporate Transparency Act, an instrument of repression in the United States that, fortunately, has now been stayed temporarily. Will we be spared its penalties permanently?