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Major General Fuller Relieved of Command

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
An Army general has been relieved of his command in Afghanistan.  His offense?  Speaking the truth about an unreliable and unworthy ally: that country’s President Hamid Karzai.
Major General Peter Fuller’s breaking point was Karzai’s declaration that, if there were a war between the United States and Pakistan, Afghanistan would side with Pakistan.  The deputy commander for NATO training responded, “…You have got to be kidding me.  We just gave you $11.6 billion and now you are telling me, ‘I don’t really care’?”
General Fuller’s criticism of Karzai as “erratic” may have been undiplomatic.  But we must neither ignore nor preclude legitimate warnings from our troops.  After all, they are bearing terrible costs to secure President Karzai’s government and protect us – even as they are being sold out by the Obama administration.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at securefreedomradio.com.
 

Presidential Ignorance

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Is expertise on national security and foreign policy a prerequisite for the presidency?  The answer obviously should be a resounding “Yes” – especially in a world as dangerous as ours. 
Until recently, though, most politicians, pundits and other so-called “smart people” insisted that this election was all about jobs, the economy and deficit reduction.  Period.
Then, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain seemed unaware that Communist China has the bomb.  Suddenly, the elites warn that the White House is no place for on-the-job-training about the nation’s defense.
Unfortunately, the same could be said of Barack Obama.  He came into the presidency understanding little about security policy.  He still seems largely clueless – particularly about the danger posed by his embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The American people deserve better – and better insist on getting it.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at securefreedomradio.com.
 

Chinese Bailout

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  
Europe is panicking.  Greece is in a financial free fall.  Italy and Spain may be next.  And Germany, the economic engine of the European Union, has neither the money nor the will to continue to bail out such spendthrifts. 
The conventional wisdom proposes to solve this crisis by having Communist China ride to the rescue.  While the People’s Republic still wants to be treated as a developing country, it has huge hard currency reserves that could underwrite a bail-out.
 
The question occurs:  At what cost?  Will the Chinese insist that Europe stop opposing Beijing’s predatory trade practices?  Or perhaps sell China advanced weapons that could be used against us?
 
Make no mistake:  Chinese help will come with strings attached.  Will they be used to strangle our European allies – or us?
 
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at securefreedomradio.com.
 

Greece Loss of Sovereignty

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  
We are witnessing in Greece the death of national sovereignty.  Its prime minister says his people should have a chance to vote on a bailout that effectively surrenders control over their political and economic affairs to others, in exchange for a promised financial bail-out.
 
The rest of Europe just wants the mother of democracy to go down quietly, without a referendum.  Leaders of the world’s top 20 economies can be expected to pile on in their meeting on the French Riviera today.
 
The whole affair should be a cautionary tale for Americans, too. We are not Greece, of course.  But we better stop ceding control over our destiny to others like the Communist Chinese, foreign suppliers of energy or international financial organizations. 
 
Our sovereignty is precious. We lose it at our peril.
 
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at securefreedomradio.com.
 

Our Leaky Umbrella

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  
Last week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta assured our South Korean allies and warned their enemies – and ours – in North Korea that America’s nuclear “umbrella” is in place.  Such assurances ring increasingly hollow, however, given the sorry state of our deterrent.
 
Our nuclear-armed missiles and bombers are increasingly antiques.  Some of the latter were actually flown by their present pilots’ grandfathers.  The weapons they carry are also old and obsolescing; none has been realistically tested underground for almost twenty years.
 
It must be asked:  At what point will our deterrent no longer reliably deter the likes of North Korea, or perhaps China?  What if our friends like South Korea, Japan or Taiwan stop feeling secure under our unreliable “umbrella” – and decide to acquire nuclear weapons of their own?
 
We dare not find out.
 
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at securefreedomradio.com.

Threat From An EMP Attack

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  
If an enemy wants to really hurt America, how would they do it?  Suicide bombs in our malls?  Poisoning our food supply?  One or more nuclear weapons destroying cities?  Unleashing a deadly, perhaps bio-engineered virus, like the black plague on steroids?
 
These are frightening scenarios and would do a lot of damage. 
 
But if someone really wants to devastate this country or – as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad like to say, bring about a world without America – one particular threat comes to mind: a high altitude electromagnetic pulse attack. 
 
Such an EMP attack – caused by a nuclear weapon detonated outside the atmosphere high over the United States – would devastate the electrical grid.  All infrastructures that rely on electricity would cease to function until the grid is repaired – which may take years.
 
By some estimates, within twelve months of a high-altitude EMP burst, nine out of ten Americans would be dead for want of food, water, heat, money, transportation, medical care and all the other things that make our society possible.
 
We can and must take steps now to shield our grid and infrastructure, our lives depend on it.
 
 
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at securefreedomradio.com.