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A Special Relationship

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
President Obama has been treating his British counterpart, Prime Minister David Cameron, to the sort of red carpet treatment that seemed unimaginable at the start of this presidency.
Back then, Mr. Obama seemed determined to do everything possible to act out his Kenyan father’s hostility toward the colonial Brits.
The President would be well advised now to follow David Cameron’s lead with respect to dealing with domestic Islamists. Team Obama has been emulating a British program known as “Prevent” that made embracing such enemies the centerpiece of Britain’s counterterrorist strategy.
But the Brits have recognized the obvious: Prevent is a complete, and dangerous, failure. So is its American counterpart. Dumping this approach would be tangible proof that the U.S.-U.K. special relationship really is special, and back on a sound footing.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.

The Afghan Meltdown

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is in Afghanistan for a damage control mission following an American soldier’s murderous attack on civilians in two Afghan villages.
The real problem is not this incident, terrible as it was. That rampage simply compounds the harm done to our standing by other actions. By far, the most important of these is President Obama’s decision to bail out of Afghanistan by 2014.
As a result, everyone there now sees we are going to lose. Survival instincts dictate that they try to get right with the likely winner, namely the Taliban. That dynamic will make it far harder to leave in good order as late as 2014 and will cost a lot more allied lives during whatever time we stay on. It may make Secretary Panetta’s – and our troops’ – a mission impossible.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.

Chinese Monopoly

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
In recent years, Communist China has gained a monopoly with alarming strategic implications. It controls the world’s supply of exotic metals critical to modern electronic devices and economies. They are known as Rare Earth Minerals and the PRC controls roughly 95% of their sources.
The Chinese have been using this monopoly as a weapon against high-tech businesses in Japan, Europe and the United States. Among those affected have been companies that produce flat screens, computer parts and weapon systems for the U.S. military.
The Chinese are also using assured and relatively low-cost domestic access to their rare earths as a means of luring Western enterprises to move to China. The matter is headed to the World Trade Organization. But in the meantime, American economic competitiveness and national security are being imperiled.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.

Oath of Office

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
When Barack Obama became President of the United States, he swore an oath to “preserve, protect and defend our Constitution.” Unfortunately, evidence has accumulated ever since that he feels no obligation to honor his commitment.
The latest and particularly ominous example came to light in congressional testimony last week by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. He told incredulous Senators that Mr. Obama might go to war in Syria if he gets international permission. And his administration might or might not inform Congress should he decide to do so.
The Constitution says only the legislature can declare war. Senator John Kerry lost his presidential campaign, in part, for declaring he would seek UN “permission” for U.S. military action.
Congress must insist that this President preserve, protect and defend, not flout, the U.S. Constitution.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.

Nuclear Accountability

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
In 2010, President Obama signed a deal with the Russians making deep cuts in U.S. nuclear forces.
Senators who had to approve this deal, known as the New START Treaty, were skeptical about its advisability – worrying that, its one-sided and unverifiable terms would not require the Russians to eliminate any of their weapons, only us.
The Senate’s approval ultimately depended on Mr. Obama promising to upgrade what would remain of America’s deterrent forces. Now, he is walking away from that pledge. Worse yet, he has ordered the Pentagon to prepare plans for a unilateral eighty percent reduction in our obsolescing and much-diminished nuclear arsenal.
Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio wants to hold President Obama accountable for disarming us in an increasingly dangerous world. A presidential campaign is the perfect time to do it.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.

Obama Submits To Sharia?

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Speculation is rising that the Obama administration may do still more to appease Afghans incensed about the inadvertent burning of some defaced Qurans.
Former CIA officer Clare Lopez has reported that, after serial apologies to Muslims, some seem to think we now need to prosecute the servicemen responsible for accidently torching these books.
Ms. Lopez warns that the Obama administration might be able to find legal pretexts to turn over the troops involved to an Afghan shariah court for punishment. There the penalty could be death.
It is hard to imagine a more outrageous and debilitating blow to the morale of our forces, or a more powerful boost to the resolve of our enemies. No American should tolerate such a betrayal of our troops or more symbolic act of submission to shariah.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.