This

is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Barack

Obama has reduced the U.S. Navy to its smallest size since before World War I.  He has also allowed our sailors to be

subjected to serial, provocative humiliations by adversaries around the world. Taken

together, you have a formula for disaster. 

For

example, the Iranians have fired missiles in close proximity to Navy warships. They

then actually seized two of them. 

Chinese

threats to attack American naval forces operating in international airspace and

waters have gone unanswered, thanks to Team Obama spurning our top Pacific commander’s

warnings that we must resist, before it’s too late. 

This

week, Russian jets simulated twenty attacks on a U.S. destroyer in the Baltic

Sea.  The Pentagon simply complained

about the perpetrators’ “lack of professionalism.” 

Unless

deterred, such provocations will eventually precipitate conflicts. If that’s to

be avoided, we must impose real costs now. 

This

is Frank Gaffney.