Secure Freedom Minute

Joe Biden has repeatedly boasted that “America is back.” It turns out, we’re back to the 1970s when, thanks to ill-advised Democratic policies he supported, we abandoned allies in Vietnam and Iran.

What some are calling “a failure of intelligence” that has resulted in a cascading and ongoing series of disasters in Afghanistan, is really a product of further unintelligent, yea inane, policy decisions by Biden and whoever is actually running the wrecking operation that passes for his administration.

Millions of people in Afghanistan – and especially women and girls – will bear the immediate costs of the current absence of competent U.S. leadership. But make no mistake: Ultimately, so will we here at home.

To cite but one example, we have handed Sharia-supremacists a decisive victory that will embolden them and our other enemies.

Expect more jihadism and aggression worldwide and aimed at us.

This is Frank Gaffney.

U.S. troops are headed back to Afghanistan, not to fight – let alone defeat – the Taliban. Instead, they’re to extricate American diplomats and other citizens, and a lucky few Afghans, before the Islamist horde conquers the country’s capital, Kabul.

Expect scenes reminiscent of a similar rout in Saigon in 1975. Even more ominous though will be other, predictable manifestations of what happens when one side stops fighting and its enemies don’t. 

Jihadis elsewhere are among those who will be emboldened by what amounts to our defeat, and who will be redoubling their hostile efforts in its wake. For example, we should expect in the coming days the Iranian mullahs to obtain the Bomb and the Islamic State to declare a new, far more foreboding caliphate in Nigeria, both of which will have profound repercussions for their respective regions – and the world.

God help us.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The wrecking operation masquerading as the Biden presidency has added a new dimension to its long litany of self-inflicted wounds: The United States is now ignominiously groveling.  

For example, this week the administration pleaded with the victorious Taliban to take time off from executing the allies we are abandoning in Afghanistan to allow safe passage out of the country for their erstwhile leaders facing a last stand in Kabul.

Then, it begged Arab petrostates to increase production of oil and gas to make up for our energy shortfalls precipitated by the Biden-Harris team’s insane dismantling of one of Donald Trump’s most important bequests to America – namely, energy independence.

The trouble with such pathetic behavior is that it breeds contempt from adversaries and prompts allies to switch sides. That’s a formula for more foes and fewer friends – and a vastly more dangerous world.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The Biden administration is reportedly contemplating making changes in its thus-far-futile campaign to secure the Iranian mullahs’ agreement to slow their accelerating nuclear weapons program. Some accounts say it’s considering a more hard-line approach, others that further appeasement is being contemplated.  

Neither gambit is likely to succeed. The Sharia-supremacists in Tehran are determined both to obtain nuclear weapons and to use them to bring “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.” They’ll never be bound by a deal that precludes those outcomes.

A powerful new podcast by Mideast expert Caroline Glick shows why the only hope for practically and finally precluding such a fate is for the Iranian people to bring down the government that oppresses them and threatens us. I urge you, and Team Biden, to learn how we can help them accomplish that at SecureFreedom.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Official Washington, and Americans more generally, are finally awakening to the reality that the Chinese Communist Party is at war with us. Yet, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is allowing Congressman Eric Swalwell to remain on the House Intelligence Committee – even though he has acknowledged having a relationship with a CCP spy aptly nicknamed “Fang Fang.”

Not only does this compromised California representative have, as a result, access to many of our nation’s most sensitive secrets. He actually is allowed still to chair the panel’s Intelligence Modernization and Readiness Subcommittee. What could possibly go wrong?

Fortunately, an impressive group of former national security practitioners and China experts – including a former Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Pete Hoekstra – have warned Speaker Pelosi today that Swalwell may still be working with Chinese intelligence. He must be removed from that panel at once.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

Maria Bartiromo is onto what is, arguably, the most important story of our time. It has a prominent business angle befitting the Fox anchor’s principal beat. But it is also of the utmost strategic significance as our financing of the threat posed to America by the Chinese Communist Party will likely determine our fate, and surely that of our children and grandchildren.

In three must-see-TV interviews last week, Ms. Bartiromo exposed the utter indifference of a driver of this “China First” strategy, J.P. Morgan’s CEO Jamie Diamond, to the massive losses U.S. investors have lately sustained in China. And she featured two brilliant critics of Wall Street’s underwriting the CCP’s “rise” – Roger Robinson and Jonathan Ward – who established that it is enabling the Party’s terrifying determination to dominate and destroy us.

Maria’s right: That must stop, now.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Joe Biden campaigned on a platform of unifying a deeply divided country. This has proven to be a particularly cynical – and dangerous – bait-and-switch.

For example, the President’s open border policy is bringing into the country hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens each month –most of them military-age, unaccompanied men. Such an invasion is giving rise to a large and growing population of foreigners whose preferential treatment can only spawn disunity at best, and violent repercussions at worst.

Consider the disparate treatment of Americans and the invaders with regard to Covid-19. We are being ordered to lock down, mask up and get vaccinated. They are being ushered into the country, untested, untreated and mostly unvaccinated and delivered at taxpayer expense to communities across the U.S. Talk about super-spreader events!

That’s a formula for division and domestic unrest, a wrecking operation, indeed.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The anti-military left used to quip, “What if they gave a war and nobody came?” Now that they are in charge of the U.S. government, we may be about to find out.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says all active duty personnel must be vaccinated against Covid-19, a murderous disease from a Chinese biowarfare laboratory. It remains to be seen how many in our all-volunteer armed forces decide to quit rather than take an experimental gene therapy they have thus far declined to inject in their bodies. But anecdotal evidence suggests there will be some, particularly among the relatively small number of actual warriors, as opposed to the many who support them.

Weakening our defenses invites possibly otherwise deterrable wars. With the people who brought us the Chinese Communist Party virus spoiling to do still more damage, that’s an experiment we must avoid.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Radical New York Mayor Bill de Blasio yesterday announced the imposition of a vaccine passport requirement in his city declaring, “If you want to participate in our society fully, you’ve got to get vaccinated.”

Henceforth, if you want to partake in indoor activities at restaurants, gyms and events there, you will need to demonstrate you’ve received a gene therapy approved so far only for emergency use. A recent, troubling webinar warns that such requirements may not be merely unethical and unconstitutional.

They may usher in a digital platform like that the Chinese Communist Party uses to aggregate personal medical and other data Big Tech collects on us to insinuate into this country a counterpart to the CCP’s Orwellian “social credit system.” Visit StopVaxPassports.org to learn more and find out how you can oppose such a mortal threat to our freedoms.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The Biden wrecking operation that passes for a presidency has had the U.S. military in its crosshairs from the get-go. Shortly  after incoming Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin promised to root out so-called “extremists,” he stood up a working group for the purpose led by a Marxist named Bishop Garrison and largely  populated by radical leftists associated with the anti-military Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU and Muslim Brotherhood. Its members have been promoting racist training programs and compiling lists of service personnel suspected of allegedly “white supremacist” tendencies, being Trump voters or otherwise dangerous.

The latest technique for purging individuals who are actual warriors, but may not be “woke,” is an impending no-exceptions Covid vaccine mandate. Many will resign rather than comply.

This is no time to break the only military we have. Joe Biden must be stopped from doing that.

This is Frank Gaffney.