Secure Freedom Minute
Episodes
Thursday Dec 05, 2013
Dodging a Radioactive Mexican Bullet
Thursday Dec 05, 2013
Thursday Dec 05, 2013
America dodged a bullet yesterday. A truck carrying a cargo of highly radioactive hospital waste was stolen in Mexico earlier this week. For a time, the whereabouts of both the vehicle and its potentially lethal cargo were unknown.In the wrong hands, the cobalt used in radiation therapy could have posed a significant danger. Used in a dirty bomb, it could kill or contaminate. Just their brief exposure to the unshielded material will likely shortly cause the thieves’ death. Fortunately, the hijacked material was recovered yesterday. But it is instructive to contemplate what might have happened had it been smuggled into the United States – especially at a moment when we are being told our immigration laws must be further weakened and our open border with Mexico left insecure.
Wednesday Dec 04, 2013
Wrong Side Obama
Wednesday Dec 04, 2013
Wednesday Dec 04, 2013
There’s a new revolution underway – this time in Ukraine. Mass demonstrations are insisting that country align with the European Union, not Russia, an idea adamantly opposed by Vladimir Putin and his puppets in Kiev.America should be standing with those seeking freedom and closer ties to the West. Yet, the Obama administration is literally missing in action, with Secretary of State John Kerry just cancelling a planned trip to Ukraine.See a pattern here? Where revolutionaries are working to overthrow friends of the United States, Team Obama is all for them.Where revolutionaries oppose regimes hostile to the United States and freedom – as in Iran in 2009 or Ukraine today – President Obama offers no help, or even rhetorical support.This pattern diminishes America’s standing internationally and makes for a more dangerous world.
Tuesday Dec 03, 2013
A Presidential Trip to Tehran?
Tuesday Dec 03, 2013
Tuesday Dec 03, 2013
A Kuwaiti newspaper says Team Obama is trying to follow its recent agreement with Iran with a presidential visit there. The White House denies the report. Let’s hope that, for once, the Obama administration is telling the truth.After all, the deal with Iran isn’t actually done, even though sanctions have been eased on Tehran, allowing the regime to receive upwards of $5 billion in what amounts to critically needed life-support.Moreover, Iran is at war with us. Whether we choose to acknowledge it or not, the United States is the object of the mullahs’ relentless hostility. They mean “Death to America” and are working hard on nuclear weapons and other ways of accomplishing it.Legitimating such a regime, let alone enabling its malevolence, is not just ill-advised. It is downright dangerous.
Monday Dec 02, 2013
Biden's Misbegotten Mission to Beijing
Monday Dec 02, 2013
Monday Dec 02, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.Joe Biden is off to China. Team Obama hopes his personal relationship with Chinese president Xi Jinping will improve relations strained by Beijing’s aggressiveness, including a new air defense identification zone over several Japanese-controlled islands. What’s wrong with this picture? First, the Chinese know our vice president is the object of ridicule from the White House on down. He’s unlikely to get respect from folks who don’t think much of Americans on a good day.Second, Biden’s conciliatory message is as bad as the messenger. A visit to China for any purpose other than to tell its leadership to rescind the air defense zone announcement will be seen for what it is: accommodation to a new, Chinese-dictated order. Joe Biden’s trip will increase the dangers of Chinese miscalculation, not erase them.This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.
Monday Nov 25, 2013
Obamabomb
Monday Nov 25, 2013
Monday Nov 25, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.Move over Obamacare. Now there’s Obamabomb.The president who promised us that his health care legislation would allow us to keep our insurance plans and doctors now insists that his agreement with Iran will not allow it to keep a nuclear weapons program. What the two pledges have in common is that they are both lies. No matter how many times such statements are repeated and seconded by President Obama’s partisans and the press, they amount to serial, intentional and potentially fatal fraud. Now, some Americans may still trust President Obama, or at least be inclined to give his deal a chance. But that means buying time and resources for an Iranian regime sure to use them, at last, to get the Bomb. Let’s give credit where it’s due: Call it Obamabomb.This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.
Friday Nov 22, 2013
Obama is No JFK
Friday Nov 22, 2013
Friday Nov 22, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.Fifty years ago today, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. This anniversary affords both an opportunity to reflect on his truncated presidency and to contrast one of its most important moments with today’s events.Earlier this week, I moderated an extraordinary symposium in Washington sponsored by EMPact America. It contrasted how President Kennedy responded forcefully and decisively to Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba with President Obama’s fecklessness in dealing with the now-incipient atomic threat from Iran. Former UN Ambassador John Bolton and others established an ominous reality: Barack Obama is no JFK.At a moment when President Kennedy’s robustness is sorely needed, we have instead, President Obama’s appeasement. The latter’s potentially disastrous repercussions only add to the nostalgia Americans feel for their fallen leader. This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.