Secure Freedom Minute

Celebrate Our Freedom, Let the Iranian People Achieve Theirs

Today we celebrate the founding of our nation and those who fought to realize the vision of an America free of British misrule to which they courageously pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. 
As it happens, but for the intervention of another foreign power, all might well have been lost. In 1777, France formally announced its recognition of the United States of America, backed by arms shipments, diplomatic support and military forces like those that helped secure our victory at Yorktown.
It behooves us to remember that crucial help as we hear reports of the Iranian mullahs murdering their people to prevent a revolution from giving rise to a Free Iran. Israel is ready to finish the job by rendering the regime unable to cling to power. All we need to do is get out of the way. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

Einstein Was Right - Try the Sane Alternative to a Ceasefire in Gaza!

Einstein Was Right – Try The Sane Alternative to a Ceasefire in Gaza!
Albert Einstein famously said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Compelling Israel once again to pull back from a decisive victory in Gaza seems to fit that description.
President Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week and is expected to press his guest to accept a 60-day ceasefire with Hamas. The predictable result would be to give Hamas what their patrons – the Iranian mullahs – got from the last one in Iran: namely, a new lease on life.
Compelling the Israelis to withdraw from parts of Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid to Hamas simply means the war there will resume in due course – and under circumstances significantly less favorable to both the Israelis and us.
The time has come to try the sane alternative: Let Israel finish the job.
 
This is Frank Gaffney

Is Xi Toast - And What Would that Mean for Us?

During the Cold War, American experts would scrutinize every shred of evidence – including who stood where on Lenin’s tomb during military parades – for clues about Kremlin leadership struggles and their implications for our security. 
A similar phenomenon is underway at the moment regarding  China’s secretive Communist hierarchy. Purges of senior military officers believed to be loyal to the current Chinese “emperor,” Xi Jinping, his recent, protracted absences – both physical and from the state-controlled media, and rumors of his ill-health are feeding speculation he may soon be toppled from power.
A timely webinar today will assess whether Xi’s days as absolute dictator are indeed numbered. And, either way, whether the advanced state of his preparations for a shooting war means that we are at a moment of acute danger – and what’s our appropriate response. 
Join us at noon Eastern Time at PresentDangerChina.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.

The Iranian Mullah's "Endless War" is Not Over

President Trump has declared “the 12-Day war is over.” But what about the truly “endless war” perpetrated by the Iranian mullahs against us and Israel when they came to power forty-six years ago?  
It would be more accurate to say hostilities have paused, consistent with Islam’s Sharia doctrine. It dictates that adherents like Iran’s leaders can only interrupt the jihad they must wage to achieve Sharia’s triumph worldwide if defeat is imminent and to buy time to regroup, rearm and renew the fighting when they can prevail. 
A VictoryCo.org briefing at noon Eastern Time today will scrutinize the Iranian regime’s ongoing bellicose rhetoric and actions – including a top ayatollah’s religious order to assassinate President Trump. To actually end its endless war, Israel must finish the job by eliminating the mullahocracy, thus affording the Iranian people a chance to Free Iran.
This is Frank Gaffney

The CCP's Crushing of Hong Kong - and Plans for Taiwan

Five years ago today, the Chinese Communist Party “fundamentally transformed” Hong Kong from a relatively free and economically thriving territory into just another enslaved city within the People’s Republic of China. 
With Beijing’s imposition of a draconian national security law, the CCP finished off the last vestiges of the “one-country, two-systems” arrangement it promised Great Britain would apply for fifty years when she surrendered the colony in 1997.  
Dissent has been crushed, with its champions like Jimmy Lai and Joshua Wong cruelly imprisoned. The mainland’s totalitarian social credit system enforces the Party’s edicts. And Hong Kong’s capital market now serves as a financial Trojan Horse, a vehicle for Wall Street to fundraise for Chinese military companies like CATL. 
An even worse fate awaits Taiwan if the Chinese Communists can next acquire it, one way or another. That must not happen.
This is Frank Gaffney.

The War is Not Over with Iran

The ongoing debate about the damage inflicted by U.S. and Israeli forces on Iran’s nuclear weapons program is obscuring a larger – and deeply concerning – reality: What’s been described as the end of “the 12-day war” has left the mullahs still in power in Tehran, their instruments for repressing the Iranian people still operating and their Communist Chinese allies still able to infuse the regime with cash, know-how and military hardware.
Thus, as long as the ayatollahs remain in control, they can always simply buy nuclear weapons. They can use their surviving missiles, or newly manufactured ones, to attack our forces in the region and/or Israel. And they can activate jihadist cells in this country – including teams tasked with assassinating President Trump. 
Without decisive victory and a Free Iran, what we have is not peace, but more endless war with the Sharia-supremacists. 
This is Frank Gaffney.