This

is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Three

decades ago, President Ronald Reagan worked to preserve and strengthen the

North Atlantic Treaty Organization from concerted external subversion and

internal discord.  He succeeded in deploying

modern theater nuclear weapons, protecting Europe and ultimately helping defeat

NATO’s principal enemy: the Soviet Union.  

Today,

the Free World’s most important alliance is once again under assault.  Vladimir Putin’s Russia has attacked Ukraine

and threatened nuclear attacks on NATO members. 

And critics – notably, Donald Trump – are once again challenging not

just the alliance’s burden-sharing, but the wisdom of its continued existence. 

The

truth is that, under circumstances like today’s, if NATO didn’t exist, it would

be a sensible American policy to try to establish it.  The alliance needs strengthening, not

dismantling, to deal jointly with not only external dangers, but those arising

from the jihadists within. 

This

is Frank Gaffney.