September 2, 2010-Doug Feith, Mark Krikorian & Sara Carter

Today on Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney, 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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September 2, 2010 Monologue

Some thoughts from me first about the anniversary of a famous quote by Theodor Roosevelt certainly one of our most colorful presidents and at the time the youngest. In 1901  he was then vice-president of the United States, he made a statement at a state fair out in the Midwest which he called to mind an adage at the time ‘Walk softly and carry a big stick.” A turn of phrase that conjured to mind the image of then a rising power in the United States, not one to bully but one have especially when Teddy Roosevelt became president and began a major ship building program which became to known as the Great White Fleet which he sent around the world to showcase American strength.

All of this was sort of an agenda that served this country well, not being boastful, aggressive but being formidable. At the time he put it, that this would give rise to a capacity to defend our hemisphere against the intrusions from outside. This best known and identified as the Monroe Doctrine, to keep non hemispheric states out of this continent. A policy that we no longer observe, witness the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, Hezbollah and others very much at work inside our hemisphere. The notion that Teddy Roosevelt that sort of espoused in that very phrase I think is very much apiece with the philosophy that we espouse out the Center for Security Policy and Ronald Reagan espoused is peace through strength.

Whether it’s a big stick or strength in a more generalized way, the notion that the world is a safer place when American power is more formidable is so time tested, so certain based on historical experience that it is unimaginable to me that we are once again going to see this country do what it has done time and time in the past. To cut down that stick, to throw it away, to dissipate that strength deliberately as often enough as favorably as he heard in the President’s speech this past week, diverting to job one, our domestic priorities.

I have to say there is very much in the tradition of America and the minds and hearts of so many of us a profound desire to lay down the desires of our global interests. Come home America as George McGovern famously put it, to revert to an isolationist position, a more boisterous more spoken policy, just essentially giving up on the world. Saying if we leave them alone they will lead us alone. History is replete with this and it is wrong and sadly has cost us dearly and the worlds at large even more profoundly requiring American aid and assistance and military capabilities and the loss of life. To reverse the departure from the strategy of peace through strength, to reverse the practice that supplants carrying a big stick and speaking softly.

I fear that in this election cycle if we do not ensure that the American people are equipped with information they need to understand d the stakes we may find coming out of it an unholy alliance between the left and right.  Playing to this default setting in our culture, coming home America, isolationism. It sets the predicate for the next horrific conflict if we yield to that temptation, we mustn’t do it and we refuse to here at Secure Freedom Radio and I hope as you less you feel compelled to act. Throughout the Peace Through Strength Platform for one thing, Peacethroughstrength.com and let us know what you think. Securefreedomradio.com is one way to do it.