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National Security Brief: Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Frank Gaffney: All Us 'Citizens of the World' As a candidate for the U.S. presidency, Barack Obama touted himself to foreign audiences as a "citizen of the world." As President, Mr. Obama is determined to make sure we are such citizens, too. The President's serial apologies, bowing and pandering to various unsavory international leaders has gained the most notoriety for his policy approach - giving rise to this column's characterization of the "Obama Doctrine" as: "Emboldening our enemies; undermining our friends; and diminishing our country." More worrisome are myriad other steps largely being taken out of the public eye. Particularly when such actions are taken together, they will have the effect of institutionalizing the core notion behind Mr. Obama's brand of what his top international lawyer (and prospective future Supreme Court nominee), State Department Legal Advisor Harold Koh, calls "transnationalism": A new world order in which the United States is simply one nation among many, subject to a higher - if utterly unaccountable - authority. A better explanation is that more Americans are taking note of the accumulating series of statements and actions by the President that display favoritism, or worse, towards Muslims. That would be troubling enough; after all, no chief executive is supposed to support one subset of us over others. Continue Reading... David Yerushalmi in Big Peace: How to Bury the Threat from Shariah by Pretending it Doesn't Exist Maajid Nawaz’s oped in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal attempts to draw a distinction between Islam and Islamism. While there may indeed be such an argument if “Islam” means any given Muslim’s personal, subjective approach to the divine and “Islamism” means Sharia-adherence and –advocacy, this is not the argument Nawaz presents. In fact, Nawaz never really tells us what he means except to slide into an argument that Islamic “traditionalists,” impliedly devout and even Shariah-adherent, reject the political and hegemonic aims of the “Islamists.” Continue Reading... September 7, 2010: Gordon Chang, Rebecca Heinrichs & Andy McCarthy Gordon Chang of Forbes Magazine covers several developments on the Korean Peninsula. Then, Rebecca Heinrichs of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy shares fascinating insights on Obama’s deal with the Russians in the new START treaty plus an update on the state of U.S. missile defense. Finally, Andy McCarthy shares new revelations dispelling the myth that Imam Faisel Rauf is a moderate. September 3, 2010: Jennifer Rubin, Tom McInerney & Claire Lopez Frank is joined first by Jennifer Rubin with Commentary magazine on the recent peace process, Tony Blair’s thoughts on Iran and the Gates replacement. Next up is retired Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney, who will be speaking on the presiden’ts speech concerning Iraq and another military officer who is refusing to deploy on the grounds that Obama is not the rightful Commander-In-Chief. Finally, Frank will be joined by Claire Lopez who will be speaking on Iranian intelligence. September 2, 2010: Doug Feith, Mark Krikorian & Sara Carter Former senior Pentagon official during the Bush Administration, Doug Feith, will weigh in on President Obama’s speech and strategy towards Iraq and the START treaty. Next, Frank will be talking to Mark Krikorian, of the Center for Immigration Studies, on the growing threat of drugs, weapons and other threats coming across the Mexican border. Finally, Sara Carter will be discussing how the president’s speech is playing with the troops.
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