Secure Freedom Minute

President Trump has a lot of legitimate complaints at the moment about our so-called “allies.” A number of them have refused our use of bases we pay for, permission to fly through their airspace, and help with the Strait of Hormuz, upon which they rely far more than we do for access to energy.
Such fair-weather friends just added insult to injury amidst the war with Iran by granting its monstrous regime both legitimacy and influence at the United Nations. 
As the non-governmental organization UN Watch caustically observed, the United Kingdom, France, Canada and Australia were among the Western nations that nominated Iran to a seat on a UN committee whose responsibilities include shaping policy on human rights, women’s rights, and terrorism prevention. 
To its credit, the United States stood alone in opposing this reprehensible travesty. Now President Trump should defund it. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

In the course of last week, an epic struggle took place in Austin, Texas with potentially far-reaching implications for the country as a whole. At issue is the character and content of social studies curricula that will be used to teach millions of K-12 children in that state, and perhaps another twenty across the USA over the next decade. 
Over sixty hours of deliberations and votes, the Board adopted required reading and other essential knowledge and skills standards that factually describe the history of our exceptional nation. In so doing, it rejected alternatives favored by a designated terrorist group known as the Council on American Islamic Relations and its radical leftist allies designed to denigrate America and indoctrinate and alienate our kids.   
Consequently, praise God, our children will have a basis for pride in this country – and grounds for helping protect her. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

Twenty-one hours of bilateral negotiations between a U.S. delegation led by Vice President J.D. Vance and one comprised of ruthless Iranian jihadists came to naught over the weekend. To paraphrase the Veep, that’s the good news.
The even better news is that President Trump has responded by announcing a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz through which the export of much oil and gas from Persian Gulf nations takes place. 
By so doing, he is negating the leverage the regime in Tehran has obtained by its own assertion of control over the Strait. That arrangement allowed it to gain desperately needed revenue by continuing to sell oil to select friends like Communist China and by imposing tolls on other vessels permitted to transit.
The U.S. blockade can – and must – precipitate the mullahs’ unconditional surrender and the liberation of their enslaved people. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

Negotiations between the Iranian regime and the Trump administration resume in Pakistan this weekend. Vice President J.D. Vance heads the U.S. delegation and is clearly determined to stop the fighting. 
Hard experience with such diplomacy over the past four decades makes one thing clear: Parleying with Iran’s sharia-supremacists may – I repeat, may – give the appearance of temporarily lessened hostilities. Unfortunately, since it necessarily involves perpetuating the ayatollahs and their loyalists’ hold on power, the threat they pose simply further metastasizes.
The alternative is now the only hope for avoiding what the brilliant George Rasley has correctly described as a stunning tactical victory lost to a catastrophic strategic defeat. That is to help achieve a different government in Iran – one representing, instead of murderously repressing, its people, not restricting the Strait of Hormuz, not pursuing nuclear weapons and not seeking Death to America. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

President Reagan warned that “Every generation faces an existential threat to freedom” and that our country must be protected from it and passed on to the next generation to do the same. 
The Texas State Board of Education is currently deciding about a social studies curriculum for K-12 students. In my testimony on Tuesday, I warned this panel’s members that their now pending choice between a pro-freedom curriculum they adopted last year and Red-Green axis one I call the “CAIR curriculum” will have real national security implications.
The Board’s deliberations and votes are still ongoing with a kind of trench warfare being waged over line-by-line amendments. 
We need to support the heroic Board members striving to equip our young people with the facts that justify love of country and the necessary willingness to defend it. I urge you to do so at BanSharia.com.  
This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, President Trump stepped back from his promise to devastate the infrastructure of Iran essential not only to its military, but the civilian population, as well. If we want the Iranian people’s help, this was a necessary course-correction.
The truth is, moreover, you cannot play chicken with an apocalyptic regime. This one’s leaders and loyalists believe they can bring back their messiah and usher in Islam’s golden age by precipitating cataclysmic devastation. 
As long as any of them remain in power, ceasefires, promises about opening the Strait of Hormuz and any other putative concessions will be seen by them and their friends as victories. And set the stage for more jihad against us and the rest of Western civilization.
Consequently, we must insist on the Iranian regime’s unconditional surrender and the actual liberation of our natural allies – the longsuffering people of Iran.
This is Frank Gaffney.