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Loose Nukes

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Next week, President Obama and roughly fifty of his counterparts from around the world are to meet in Seoul, South Korea to talk about a very serious problem: loose nukes.
There’s a lot of material from which nuclear weapons or simpler “dirty bombs” could be fashioned and not all of it is rigorously controlled. What’s more, terrorist groups could get their hands on an actual weapon from, say the former Soviet Union’s still- inadequately secured stockpile.
Unfortunately, Mr. Obama and the so-called “Global Zero” movement seem to think that the way to address these threats is to denuclearize the United States. That won’t prevent a single unsecure nuke from getting loose.  It will just mean that we will greatly increase the incentives to others to get their hands on the Bomb.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.

Obama's All-of-the-Above Plan

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
President Obama is right in saying that the solution to America’s serious energy insecurity is “all-of-the-above.” Yet, he seems to favor only some of the options, for example, less intensified extraction of American natural resources and more investment in fuel-efficient cars and alternative, green technologies.
One extremely promising option seems missing altogether from this menu. America has immense reserves of natural gas. Currently, so much gas is coming on-line that its price is extremely low.
Consequently, we can quickly and inexpensively produce large quantities of a liquid derivative known as methanol that can be used in many late model cars with very minor modifications. This would offer American drivers fuel choice and help end OPEC’s oil monopoly. Let’s make methanol part of a bipartisan and truly all-of-the-above strategy for energy security.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.

What Our Are Children Learning?

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
In France this week, three Jewish children were murdered outside their school by an assailant on a motorbike who claims to be a jihadist from North Africa tied to al Qaeda.
Every parent thought immediately of their own children’s vulnerability at or enroute to school.  These are the ultimate soft-targets in free and open societies like ours, and virtually impossible to protect completely.
What we can do something about, however, is another kind of jihadist attack on our schoolchildren – through what they are taught.  A major new study by ACT for America of 38 U.S. textbooks reveals a pattern of “historical revisionism, omissions and bias in the presentation of all aspects devoted to Islam.”  Check it out, and learn what you can do to protect your kids from this stealth jihad.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.

Negotiating Away An Effective Tool

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
The Obama administration is negotiating away one of the most effective tools we have for countering our enemies in Afghanistan. They are known as night raids and some 2500 of them have been conducted in recent years by our highly trained special forces units with devastating effect on the Taliban’s leaders.
Even though all those raids have only resulted in the inadvertent death of 10 civilians, Afghan President Hamid Karzai insists that they end. Team Obama reportedly is poised to agree that such raids will now require the prior approval of Afghan judges. This is crazy as advance notice of the raids will result in ambushes and more of our guys getting killed.
President Obama has already invited defeat in Afghanistan. His concessions on night raids makes it that much more likely.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.

Lessons From SSG. Bales

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
As we learn more about the alleged perpetrator of a massacre of civilians in Afghanistan, Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, an ominous question looms: Are we breaking the U.S. military?
At issue is not whether this crime should be excused due to Sgt. Bales’ four combat tours and several injuries. Nor is it to impugn the extraordinary men and women serving in uniform who every day overcome similar hardships.
If we expect to rely in the future on an all-volunteer military, however, as a nation we must reduce those hardships – and the sacrifice entailed in overcoming them. In today’s dangerous world, we need larger forces, properly equipped and confident that commitments made to them and their families will be honored. That’s not President Obama’s plan, and it needs to be fixed.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.

Happy Birthday Kim il-Sung

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Even by North Korean standards, the latest example of its contemptuous bad faith in deal-making with the West marks a new standard of brazenness and contempt for its interlocutors, namely us.
Three weeks ago, we were told the newly installed Kim Jong-Un regime would suspend, its long-range missile tests. In exchange, it was to get a quarter-million tons of food aid from the United States.
Now we learn that Kim will celebrate the hundredth birthday of his despot-grandfather, Kim il Sung, by trying to launch a satellite into space. It will be aboard, guess what, a long-range missile – inherently testing militarily relevant technologies and systems in the process.
We need no more evidence that the malevolent North Korean regime must go, not be perpetuated by U.S. food aid, money or political support.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.