This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure

Freedom Minute.

The strong silent type is a well known American

character.  Unfortunately, when it comes

to Vladimir Putin’s serial and escalating provocations, President Obama appears

to be the silent weak sort. 

In a recent phone call with Putin, Mr.

Obama didn’t mention  increasingly

aggressive behavior by Russian warplanes. His press spokesman justified the

President’s failure to do so, saying “These

kinds of incidents, while provocative and concerning, are not particularly

unusual.” 

Failing to object to dress rehearsals for

aerial bombing runs on our ships and maneuvers that endanger our aircraft is a

formula for such incidents – and worse

– becoming more “usual.”   

The best way to preserve peace is through

strength, not weakness, and by saying – and convincingly demonstrating – that we will exact a heavy price for any future

repetition of such threatening behavior by Russia, China or other potential, or

actual, adversaries.   

This is Frank Gaffney.