Secure Freedom Minute

Yesterday, President Trump spoke at a defense and innovation summit in Pennsylvania about the need for both, and his commitment to reshoring and rebuilding the nation’s industrial base. 
Unfortunately, events half-a-world-away are underscoring the necessity, as one summit participant put it, “to supercharge the supply chains” so as to accelerate the translation of defense innovation into production into deployed weapon systems.
Not only are we rapidly exhausting our dwindling supply of advanced weapons in Iran. It’s no coincidence, comrade, that Communist China is simultaneously flooding the Western Pacific with warships, coast guard vessels, maritime militia and armed fishing boats as it asserts ownership of international waters and puts in place the makings of a blockade or quarantine of Taiwan.
To paraphrase the money quote from Jaws: We’re going to need a bigger boat – and lots of them – and right quick.
This is Frank Gaffney.

Morse Tan is a freedom-fighter who served as ambassador-at-large for Global Criminal Justice during the first Trump administration. Today, he is effectively a political prisoner in South Korea. 
Amb. Tan has long spoken truth to power. In particular, he has warned about the lengths to which the Republic of Korea’s radical leftists have subverted freedom and elections. He’s even courageously done so in South Korea. 
Now that the hard Left is fully in power in Seoul under a Communist named Lee Jae-myung, the Ambassador has been prevented from leaving South Korea for over five weeks. That is outrageous.
When Lee visited Washington last year, President Trump declined to criticize him over myriad, serious concerns about his guest’s decades of anti-American activism. It’s high time Mr. Trump let Lee know his present mistreatment of Amb. Tan is utterly unacceptable.
This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 
Unbeknownst to too many Americans, there are three totalitarian forces seeking to take down the United States so as to install globally some new ruling regime. 
To his credit, President Trump has lately been lighting up the Communists in our midst. 
The Congressional Sharia-Free America Caucus is among those warning about the jihadists aggressively operating in this country. 
And now Secretary of State Marco Rubio has robustly taken on the globalist elites using transnational organizations like the International Criminal Court to create a world government at the expense of U.S. sovereignty. 
These three forces have different end-states in mind and will, inevitably, fight each other over who will ultimately prevail. But, for the moment, they are collaborating to take down the only real impediment to their collective ambitions: the USA.
We must recognize, vigorously oppose and defeat this Totalitarian Trifecta. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

The sudden death of Senator Lindsey Graham tectonically shifts our national security firmament. Whether one agreed with his priorities or not, he indisputably filled a unique position in the Senate and the country for which there is no obvious replacement.
Notably, he was a tireless champion of Ukraine, Israel and liberating Iran. 
Sen. Graham died right after his tenth trip to Kyiv, living to see  the Ukrainians winning the war there – unless Putin goes nuclear.
At a time of rampant hostility towards Israel, Lindsey correctly recognized her as a key ally fighting our enemies and warranting our support – especially with respect to “finishing the job” by helping accomplish real regime change in Tehran.
Sen. Graham will be most missed, though, in his role as “Trump whisperer,” a trusted confident of the President surrounded by others with sharply differing views. 
R.I.P. Lindsey Graham. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump appropriately responded militarily this week to attacks by the Iranian regime on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The episode underscores, however, what is certain to be repeated by our enemies in Tehran if they remain in power.
The reason is only partly because Iran’s jihadists view a “humiliation ritual” as their strongest weapon for winning by defeating President Trump politically in the looming November midterms.
Another impetus is Iran’s Chinese puppet-master, Xi Jinping, wants the Mideast war to continue as it distracts America from his incremental, but intensifying, efforts to take Taiwan. The latest step tees up a quarantine or blockade as PRC Coast Guard vessels have begun conducting “law enforcement operations” in so-called “Chinese coastal waters” east of the island.
We must finish the job in Iran now, and prepare urgently for the next one in the Pacific.
This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, President Trump repeatedly declared that
“There is something wrong” with the leaders of Iran. He’s absolutely right, fundamentally, because the current crop – like all their predecessors – are sharia-supremacists. 
As such, they will do everything possible to destroy unbelievers, including fellow Muslims they consider to be apostates and certainly us. To that end, they’ll employ every instrument from deception to political subversion to violent jihad.
The same is true of Ahmed al-Sharaa, the erstwhile al Qaeda commander who is now, with the backing of the sharia-supremacist regimes in Turkey and Qatar, the president of Syria. 
Tragically, Mr. Trump is being blindsided by such false friends and even some of his own subordinates to construe Sharaa-tied jihadist attacks on Christians, Druze and other minorities as laudable “stabilization” of that long-suffering country.
Mr. President, there’s something very wrong as well with the Syrian leadership.   
This is Frank Gaffney.