Secure Freedom Radio Podcast

In light of the visit of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, MICHAEL RUBIN of the American Enterprise Institute joins Frank for the entire hour to outline the Geo-political role of Erdogan and Turkey, both historically and in the context of current events.

What is the nature of the Turkish government and how has it changed under Erdogan's leadership?  Has it drifted, undetected, from a secular nationalist nation toward one with an Islamist identity?

This important NATO ally has maintained appearances through Erdogan's relationship with Obama even while a sea change in Turkish foreign policy shifts to strengthen ties with Middle Eastern entities aligned against the U.S.  What are the implications for Israel, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt?

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CORRECTED 5/1 File: With Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, Michael Rubin, Janice Kephart, Diana West.

Ret. Lt. Gen. JERRY BOYKIN of Special Operations Speaks discusses the recent discovery that witnesses to the Benghazi attack of last year are being blocked by the Department of State and CIA from telling their stories.

MICHAEL RUBIN, Resident Scholar at AEI, talks about the current crisis in Syria and the threats coming from an increasingly unstable Iran.

JANICE KEPHART, National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, provides data she has found--which the Obama administration doesn't want made public--that details the increasing number of border crossing attempts since the talk of amnesty began. The most shocking statistic? A 500% increase in activity in the Tuscon sector over the past year.

DIANA WEST, author of The Death of the Grownup, reports on suspicious links between the Boston bombings and Saudi Arabia.

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With Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, Michael Rubin, Janice Kephart, Diana West.

Ret. Lt. Gen. JERRY BOYKIN of Special Operations Speaks discusses the recent discovery that witnesses to the Benghazi attack of last year are being blocked by the Department of State and CIA from telling their stories.

MICHAEL RUBIN, Resident Scholar at AEI, talks about the current crisis in Syria and the threats coming from an increasingly unstable Iran.

JANICE KEPHART, National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, provides data she has found--which the Obama administration doesn't want made public--that details the increasing number of border crossing attempts since the talk of amnesty began. The most shocking statistic? A 500% increase in activity in the Tuscon sector over the past year.

DIANA WEST, author of The Death of the Grownup, reports on suspicious links between the Boston bombings and Saudi Arabia.

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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, of the Hoover Institute, postulates why Obama is changing over 65 years of American foreign policy to remove the US from its preeminent place in international relations, and explains the reasoning behind Obama's progressive move to cut defense spending to fund entitlement programs.

AMB. JOHN BOLTON, former US ambassador to the UN, analyzes the fallout from Chuck Hagel's Senate hearing, and explains that nuclear deterrence won't work against an enemy who believes that such destruction would lead to paradisaical glory.

MICHAEL RUBIN, from the American Enterprise Institute, explains how Egypt is on the brink of becoming a failed state, how Turkey is not an American ally, and how Al Qaeda has planted its roots in the Syrian rebellion leading to disastrous consequences for Israel no matter the outcome of the current conflict.

GORDON CHANG, from forbes.com, interprets the war-talk coming from Chinese officials, combined with recent increased isolation in Tibet, and aggression over disputed islands as a warning to America of China's desire for a war in the near future.

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Frank and MICHAEL RUBIN of AEI analyze the rise of Islam in Turkey, and the indoctrination of American and Turkish youth through the building of Gulen schools in over 135 different locations in America.

DANIELLE PLETKA of AEI discusses the potential degrading effects on national security that the appointment of John Kerry, Chuck Hagel, and John Brennan from the Obama administration will have.

CAROLINE GLICK of the Jerusalem Post explains how the key problem with the Hagel nomination is not that he is anti-Israel, but that he is anti-America. Glick argues that no country will replace the U.S., but rather the world will become much more violent--just as it was in the 19th century.

DIANA WEST, author of Death of the Grown-Up,  and Frank discuss the Islam presence evident in media and especially in Al Goreera, the newly acquired Al Jazeera, and the presence of heavily influenced Muslim Brotherhood ideals in American media.

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MICHAEL RUBIN of AEI gives us a look at what is happening in the Middle East, and in particular how relations between various Arab countries could impact Israel.

GORDON CHANG examines the changes taking place within China's People's Liberation Army on the eve of their once-a-decade political transition.

General JACK KEANE provides his expert opinion on the budget crisis the U.S. military is facing--a crisis that is not waiting until January 1st, but that is happening now thanks to cuts already made.

ROGER NORIEGA takes a look at Governor Romney's rhetoric concerning Latin America, and well as what potential the region has for the U.S.--both good and bad.

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With Ben Shapiro, Michael Rubin, Adam Kredo, and Gordon Chang

BEN SHAPIRO highlights the continued failings of President Obama’s foreign policy, specifically discussing Obama’s deference to Egyptian President Morsi and continual apologizing for American values and freedom speech. President Obama will be under pressure during the UN General Assembly to further kowtow to Middle East leaders and adopt policies unfavorable to Israel.

Former Pentagon official MICHAEL RUBIN talks about the threat to free speech posed by Islamists in Turkey and the U.S.

ADAM KREDO of the Washington Free Beacon weighs in on a  court decision that ruled against the National Iranian American Council and its founder, Trita Parsi.

GORDON CHANG discusses the continuing tensions between China and Japan, and the likely Communist Party role behind events in China.

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Andy Bostom, Brown university associate professor of medicine, author, and expert on counter terror threat doctrine, shares his expertise on Islamic law with its bearing on a recent court ruling against an Athiest’s freedom of speech in Pennsylvania, the Koran riots in Kabul, and the eschatology of the Iranian regime.

Bill Clinton’s former CIA, Jim Woolsey, director also weighs in on Iran with great detail about the nature of the regime and the beliefs of the factions there in.  He also makes sense of uranium enrichment reports and their significance for interpreting the timing of a potential weapons capability.  Jim makes sense of Iranian “prophecies” that calls for the return of the twelfth imam who will lead the battles that will end the world. He explains that the Iranian regime believes it is time for an epic battle between Iran and the Jews, and their allies, resulting in the destruction of the Jewish people and a new Iranian world order. Jim compares this notion of future world events with the Nazi beliefs of the 1930s. The American government has not been candid with its citizens as to the extent of the Iranian nuclear program and the threat it poses to global security.

Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute begins without strong criticism of the President’s apology to Karzai and lays out the strategic distinction in this act from other infamous gestures of weakness to foreign leaders.   Rubin cuts beyond the Koran burning to the deep strategic issues on the ground that defines either failure or success in Afghanistan.   On the matter of arming Syrian rebels, there is a right way and a wrong one.  Without asking the right questions, the risk of arming Al Qaeda type Islamists is a real possibility.

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Michael Rubin joins Frank in segment one  to explain how Iran could only really close the Strait of Hormuz for no more than a day because it needs to import gas as well as export oil for its own economy.  Iran is trying to psychologically increase oil prices in order to reap the benefits. Michael Rubin then touches on the relationship between the Egyptian military and the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt’s military leaders are more like businessman than soldiers and therefore are willing to make a deal with the Muslim Brotherhood if it is beneficially.  What will this mean to Egypt and the region? Will the Muslim Brotherhood destroy the military in order to gain sole control over Egypt? What are the implications of the Prime Minister of Hamas visiting Turkey at the behest of the Turkish government?

Gordon Chang joins Frank to speak on how the North Korean regime is trying to show solidarity for Kim Jung Un while China is determined to maintain stability within the Korean peninsula by propping up the new North Korean leader. China is doing its best to put money and resources into Kim Jung Un which would make North Korea essentially the fourth Chinese province. China will end up absorbing North Korea and therefore everything North Korea does will be an extension of Chinese foreign policy.   China’s support to rogue regimes does not end with North Korea, but is also extended to Iran. Will China become more hostile in 2012 and how will China use the Law of the Sea Treaty to restrict international waterways?

Andy McCarthy spends twice the amount of time with Frank in order to educate us on the cost of American security. Is America really to blame for the world’s problems? Is the root of Islamic extremism and Islamic terrorism ideology or some outside factor? Paul Stockton, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Security, refused to acknowledge the threat to America posed by Islamic extremism and Islamic terrorism. He refused to even utter those words in a Congressional testimony as part of the Obama Administration’s appeasement platform. In fact, the Obama Administration is turning to an Islamic extremist that has advocated the death of U.S. soldiers in order to broker a deal with the Taliban.  Also, the president is welcoming the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, who wants to abandon the peace treaty with Israel. Was does this mean for Israeli security and who will the Israelis turn to for help, America?

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