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Frank Gaffney (24)

Birth:	5th April, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Anchor, Columnist, Public Servant

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• Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Necessary, Nations, Suspected

• If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Attack, Invaluable

• The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are… the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

  Frank Gaffney

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  Tags in Helping, Trying

• One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush’s Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Terrorism, President, Important

• The object of China’s strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world’s premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Necessary, Object

• The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations’ dues to sustain the UN’s operations.

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Nations, Member

• After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood’s inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah.

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Organization, Revolutionary

• After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the ‘end of history,’ and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called ‘peace dividend.’ As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11.

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in History

  Tags in Peace, Believed, Ignored

• Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Energy

• But I really believe it is in America’s interest as well as that of the free world more generally to stop Iran from getting its hands on nuclear weapons. This regime has threatened to wipe Israel off the map and bring about a world without America, and either of those is a really bad prospect.

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Interest, Really

• Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent.

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in Business

  Tags in President, Worked

• Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines.

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expression, Resolution, Freedom

• History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in History

  Tags in War, Imperial, Enemies

• I don’t believe there is such a thing as a moderate Islamist party. The challenge with Islamists is that they seek to impose what they call Sharia on everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Believe, Impose

• It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been ‘mugged by reality.’

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Enough

• Most Americans will be horrified that President Obama is compromising our deterrent to chemical and biological attacks on this country. Our allies will also be troubled by his aspiration to eliminate U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.

  Frank Gaffney

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  Tags in President, Troubled

• Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country’s taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.

  Frank Gaffney

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  Tags in American, Government

• To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s.

  Frank Gaffney

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  Tags in President, Security, Importance

• Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.

  Frank Gaffney

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  Tags in Behind, Expression, Impetus

• Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization – including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia – have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor.

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Organization, Environment