Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Richard Kemp

RICHARD KEMP, Infantry Battalion Commanding Officer (Ret.), British Army, Author, "Attack State Red," @COLRICHARDKEMP

• Col. Richard Kemp: We had to remain in Afghanistan for some time after 2001 - We couldn’t just destroy Al-Qaeda and the Taliban and immediately pull out
• Where and when did the situation in Afghanistan “go off the tracks”?
• Col. Kemp: The U.S. and U.K. directly controlled the Afghan government, which was not capable of controlling the whole of Afghanistan
• Col Kemp: Taxpayer money was used to fund a war against the U.S. and its allies in Afghanistan
• Col. Kemp: For President Biden to call the Afghan army, “cowards…they won’t fight for themselves, why should we fight for them,’ after stripping them of vital U.S. support, is devastating
• What are the takeaways from the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan?
• Col. Kemp: “Talk about a twenty-year war, what about South Korea? The Americans have been in South Korea since the 50’s…We’ve had a U.S. garrison in Germany since 1945…” So why is Afghanistan separated from the rest? 
• Col. Kemp: It took the U.S. 15 years to successfully regain its position in the world after the Fall of Saigon

With Paul Crespo

PAUL CRESPO, Retired U.S. Marine Officer, Former Naval Attaché, Defense Intelligence Agency, President, Center for American Defense Studies, Managing Editor, American Defense News

• Paul Crespo talks about private efforts to evacuate Afghans and Americans out of Afghanistan and the alleged “kill list” provided to the Taliban by the Biden Administration
• Private flights are leaving empty because of obstructions put in place by the Biden Administration
• Crespo: China was nowhere in space 8 years ago, and now they have a base on the dark side of the moon
• Crespo explains China’s ever expanding anti-Satellite missile capabilities

With Dr. Lawrence Sellin, Dr. Nayla Rush and Christine Douglass-Williams

DR. LAWRENCE SELLIN, retired international businessman and medical researcher, Veteran, US Army Reserve, @LawrenceSellin

• Dr. Lawrence Sellin: Pakistan has always sought to turn Afghanistan into a “client State” of theirs - Pakistan was never an ally of the United States
• Dr. Sellin: India is the key to South Asia

DR. NAYLA RUSH, Senior Researcher, Center for Immigration Studies, @NaylaRush

• Special Immigrant Visa for Afghans: We are not evacuating refugees, for the most part, out of Afghanistan - The U.S. has programs for collaborates who are under threat in Afghanistan
• The Biden Administration and Congress have greatly extended the various special Afghan visa programs - These applicants receive a green card upon acceptance into these programs
• Issues with processing SIV applicants in the U.S., some of which may be denied: “Once they get here, they are here for life”

CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS, Nine-time international award-winning journalist and television producer, former federally appointed Director, Canadian Race Relations Foundation, former Appointee, Office of Religious Freedom in Foreign Affairs, Author, "The Challenge of Modernizing Islam"

• Muslim ‘Minister for Women and Gender Equality’ refers to Taliban as ‘our brothers’
• As opposed to other Parliamentary systems, a sitting Prime Minister in Canada can call an election at any moment. They only need the governor general’s approval
• Who is the alternative to Justin Trudeau? 

Grant Newsham, David Wurmser and Amb. Kenneth Blackwell

GRANT NEWSHAM, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Senior Research Fellow at Japan Forum for Strategic Studies, Contributor, Asia Times, @NewshamGrant

• Grant Newsham: Afghanistan has been left to the “tender mercy” of the ruthless Taliban
• Island hoping within the First Island Chain and off the coast of China - What would it look like?
• Newsham: The Chinese outnumber American ships in the South China Sea at least 10 to 1

DAVID WURMSER, Director, Center for Security Policy’s Program on Global Anti-Semitism, former Middle East Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, retired, US Navy Reserves Lieutenant Commander

• David Wurmser: In the West, we operate under the pretense that differing groups like the Sunnis and Shias, or Iranian Shias Revolutionaries and the Al-Qaeda and the Sunni Islamist Jihadis will never cooperate - While, in reality, all of these groups see the U.S., and the West, as their primary enemy in the long run
• Wurmser: Bill Burns, the Director of the CIA, is being used as the United States’ chief negotiator, which only further politicizes the U.S. intelligence establishment
• Wurmser argues that the U.S. will be more worried about Israeli “wild cat action” than Iran itself
• Wurmser: The PLO is a politically dead body that has no influence over the Palestinian population in and around Israel

AMB. KENNETH BLACKWELL, Former Ohio State Treasurer and Secretary of State, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations' Human Rights Commission, Senior Fellow, Family Research Council, Author, "The Blueprint: Obama's Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency," @kenblackwell

• Amb. Kenneth Blackwell: H.R.4 is a blatant attempt to federalize our elections - To impose a one-size fits all scheme
• Amb. Blackwell responds to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to reinstate the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” immigration policy

With Robert Spencer, Michel Gurfinkiel and Capt. James Fanell

ROBERT SPENCER, Director, Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist, PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine, Author, "Mass Migration in Europe: A Model for the U.S.?," and forthcoming, "Islamophobia and the Threat to Free Speech," @jihadwatchRS 

• Robert Spencer: "Sharia is an all-encompassing program for every aspect of human behavior" - Sharia States always have an aggressive posture towards those around them
• Spencer: To say that there is a benign form of Sharia just flies in the face of our historical experiences - All Sharia states look the same

MICHELE GURFINKIEL, former Editor-At-Large, Valerus Actuelles, Fellow, Middle East Forum, Founder and President, Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute

• Michel Gurfinkiel explains who was ruling Afghanistan pre-U.S. intervention and who will rule after
• Lessons for Afghanistan: What would have happened if the Truman administration had not applied the Truman Doctrine across Europe after World War II?
• What impact will the degradation of traditional French values have on the way of life in France? 

CAPT. JAMES FANELL, retired Intelligence Officer for the Indo-Pacific, US Navy, former National Security Affairs Fellow, Hoover Institute

• Capt. James Fanell: One of the most surprising outcomes of the botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is that not a single high ranking Biden Administration official has resigned, or been asked to resign
• Capt. Fanell finds that U.S. inaction in Afghanistan is sending shockwaves around the world
• Capt. Fanell: Since the election, the Biden Administration is facing an ever-widening credibility gap

With Sam Faddis, Gordon Chang and Bill Walton

SAM FADDIS, former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis

• Sam Faddis talks about the Haqqani network in Afghanistan and its connections to the Taliban
• Faddis: There is no reality behind the Biden administration’s assertion that we are dealing with a “kinder,” “gentler” Taliban
• Faddis: We will pay the price for what happened in Afghanistan all around the world
• Faddis: The Taliban has already decided that they are going to give the Chinese access to Afghanistan’s mass mineral deposits

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Newsweek, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, “Losing South Korea,” and “The Great US-China Tech War,” @Gordongchang

• Two themes that China is perpetuating today: America’s allies can no longer rely on the U.S. for protection and that the Chinese army can easily defeat the Taliban
• Gordon Chang: India will continue to harass Chinese interests throughout the Middle East
• Chang: There have to be questions about Dr. Anthony Fauci's role in helping the U.S. effectively fight COVID-19

BILL WALTON, Chairman, Resolute Protector Foundation, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow

• Bill Walton: Chairman Xi Jinping is not only signaling that Chinese businesses need to invest in things, like the military, that are good for China but he’s also beginning to supposedly crackdown on income inequality to promote “common prosperity”
• In China, the top 1% own 1/3 of the country’s wealth, while the bottom 25% own 1% of the wealth
• Walton: Money should be left in the hands of people who know how to invest it safely and strategically - Not government agencies
• Walton: If debt goes from $25 to $55 trillion, half of all borrowing will go towards paying off the debt’s interest - Meaning that we can’t pay a dime towards defense

With Monica Crowley, Naomi Wolf and Stephen Soukup

MONICA CROWLEY, Former Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury:

• Monica's experience with Richard Nixon
• Lessons learned from the Vietnam War
• China's willingness to work with the Taliban
• The natural resource wealth of Afghanistan

NAOMI WOLF, A Rhodes Scholar and former advisor to Clinton and Gore campaigns, and author of eight NYT nonfiction bestsellers:

• Naomi's new initiative, DailyClout.io
• What is the Social Credit System?
• The impact this system has on the freedoms of Chinese people

STEPHEN SOUKUP, Author, "The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business," Vice President and Publisher, The Political Forum, Fellow, Culture of Life Foundation, @ThePolForum

• The power of Larry Fink in the financial community
• The financial world's connection to the Chinese Communist Party
• The need for patriotic American investing

With Lawrence Sellin and Lani Elliott

LAWRENCE SELLIN, retired international businessman and medical researcher, Veteran, US Army Reserve, @LawrenceSellin:

• Pakistan's role in the fall of Afghanistan
• How will the Chinese relationship with the Taliban change after the U.S. withdrawal?
• The connection between "globalists" and the Chinese Communist Party
• Assessing the capability of the Chinese biological warfare program

LANI ELLIOTT, Economist specializing in the economic and interdisciplinary study of instability and internal conflict at field, policy and strategic levels, Washington assignments covered East Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East as well as functional areas such as refugees, counter-narcotics and energy sector reform:

• A history of US involvement in South Vietnam
• Parallels between the withdrawal from Vietnam and Afghanistan
• Lani's personal experience in the U.S. government

With Michael Yon, Ellie Cohanim, and Lawrence Peck

MICHAEL YON, Former Green Beret, Independent Combat Journalist, MichaelYon-online.com, @Michael_Yon

• The ongoing situation in Afghanistan
• The speed with which the Afghan government collapsed
• An update on the fight for freedom in Hong Kong

ELLIE COHANIM, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Host of the weekly newsmagazine show, “Global Perspectives with Ellie Cohanim” for Jewish News Service (JNS), Previously served as U.S. Deputy Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism at the U.S. Department of State:

• What resulted from the Durban Review Conference?
• Assessing the leadership of the United Nations
• A recent rise in anti-Semitism throughout the world

LAWRENCE PECK, Advisor, North Korean Freedom Coalition and "One Korea Network," Representative, KOREA CPAC:

• The relationship between South Korea and China
• The unmasking of a North Korean spy ring
• North Korean influence operations taking place in the United States

With Gen. (Ret.) William G. Boykin and Jeff Nyquist

GEN. (RET.) WILLIAM G. BOYKIN, Executive Vice President, Family Research Council, original Member, U.S. Army’s Delta Force, @GenBoykin

• US motivations for going into Afghanistan following 9/11
• What was the CORDS program?
• Assessing how the Chinese and Russians will exploit the turmoil in Afghanistan
• The condition of the US armed forces

JEFF NYQUIST, Writer, Epoch Times, Author, “Origins of the Fourth World War and The New Tactics of Global War” and “The Fool and His Enemy,” JRNyquist.blog, @JRNyquist

• What is the Grand Solar Minimum?
• Various cycles that the sun goes through
• What was the Carrington Event?
• The efficiency of biological weapons
• Assessing the Chinese biological weapons program