Remembering 9/11, America First, Inward China's Crosshairs

by Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Remembering 9/11 - Everyone remembers where they were on the morn of September 11, 2001. I was driving yesteryear the Pentagon when a hijacked bird slammed into the nervus pump of America's armed services power.

The struggle that hitting domicile on 9/11 hasn't ended. In the 17 years since 9/11, the Islamic Republic of Islamic Republic of Iran has emerged equally a major ability inward the Middle East.

We cause got lived through the so-called "Arab Spring," which turned into a nightmare. We cause got seen the ascent of the Islamic State together with witnessed an ongoing genocide of Christians.

There cause got been repeated attacks on our homeland. Just final month, law raided a chemical compound inward New United Mexican States where Muslim extremists were grooming children to commit schoolhouse shootings. As a country, nosotros must remain vigilant to the threats of Islamic supremacism.

Today, President Donald Trump attended the dedication of a novel memorial inward Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 went down. The president praised the courage of those xl passengers together with crew members, saying:

"On September 11, 2001, a band of brave patriots turned the tide on our nation's enemies together with joined the immortal ranks of American heroes. At this memorial on this sacred world inward the champaign beyond this wall together with inward the skies higher upward our heads, nosotros shout back the minute when America fought back. . .

"We laurels their sacrifice yesteryear pledging to never flinch inward the aspect upward of evil together with to create whatever it takes to maintain America safe. . .

"Soon afterwards takeoff, Flight 93 was hijacked yesteryear evil men bent on terror together with conquest. . . Immediately those on Flight 93 started planning a response. . . The passengers together with crew members came together, took a vote together with they decided to act. At that moment, they took their fate together with America's fate dorsum into their ain hands. . .

"And together with thus they bravely charged the cockpit. They attacked the enemy. They fought until the really end. And they stopped the forces of terror together with defeated this wicked, horrible, evil plan. . .

"A slice of America's pump is buried on these grounds. But inward its identify has grown a novel resolve to alive our lives amongst the same grace together with courage equally the heroes of Flight 93.

"This champaign is at ane time a monument to American defiance. This memorial is at ane time a message to the world: America volition never, e'er submit to tyranny."

There are things nosotros tin create to laurels the retention of those who perished on 9/11. Tell those around y'all that y'all dearest them. Thank our policemen, firemen together with service members for all that they create to maintain our province safe.

And remind yourself why y'all are blessed to alive inward America. Rediscover the God of Abraham, who said, "I cause got laid earlier y'all life together with death. Now select life thus that y'all together with your children may live."

America First - Donald Trump is non your typical politician, evidenced yesteryear the resistance of the DC swamp, the hysterical media together with the #NeverTrump GOP establishment. He is fighting difficult non merely for touchstone Republican orthodoxy, but for a conservative populist agenda that puts America first. Sadly, that seems to endure a unusual concept to our institution elites.

For example, our manufacturing base of operations has been gutted yesteryear policies pursued nether both Democrat together with Republican administrations. But Trump is working difficult to pose American workers first. And he is succeeding.

According to the small describe concern optimism merely laid a tape high, fifty-fifty exceeding the optimism of the Reagan years.

We got some other instance of the president's America showtime approach to unusual policy inward a spoken communication delivered yesterday yesteryear National Security Adviser John Bolton.

Previous Democrat together with Republican administrations cause got embraced the fiction that at that topographic point is a acre called "Palestine." Both parties cause got permitted the Palestine Liberation Organization to operate an business office inward Washington that functioned similar a quasi-embassy since 1994.

But given the intransigence of the Palestinian Authority, the recently signaled it was going to investigate the actions of U.S. soldiers inward Afghanistan.

Bolton announced yesterday that at that topographic point was no way nosotros would permit unusual bureaucrats to stand upward inward judgment of our troops. Nor would nosotros let them to target our ally Israel. Bolton was unambiguous, saying:

"The US of America volition job whatever agency necessary to protect our citizens together with those of our allies from unjust prosecution yesteryear this illegitimate court. . . For all intents together with purposes, the ICC is already dead to us. . .

"If the courtroom comes afterwards us, State of Israel or other U.S. allies, nosotros volition non sit down quietly. . . We volition ban its judges together with prosecutors from entering the United States. We volition sanction their funds inward the U.S. fiscal system, together with nosotros volition prosecute them inward the US criminal system."

Not a bad day's piece of work for a White House that is supposedly inward consummate chaos.

In China's Crosshairs - Communist PRC has been oppressing domicile churches for years. Yet it has to a greater extent than oftentimes than non tolerated churches that concur to province influence, such equally monitoring activities together with censoring sermons.

But inward an ominous plough of events, at that topographic point is growing evidence that the Chinese authorities is getting to a greater extent than aggressive inward suppressing religious freedom. Bibles are beingness burned together with churches are beingness unopen inward ane of the worst authorities crackdowns inward decades.

This topic was a major betoken of give-and-take at yesterday's coming together of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. My swain commissioners together with I strongly agreed that to a greater extent than attending was needed to expose the widespread persecution of believers inward China.

Today the Commission released a statement condemning "the Chinese government's ongoing barbarous together with systematic targeting of religious communities."

In add-on to China's unfair merchandise practices, growing religious persecution is some other argue why the Trump Administration is correct to sanction Chinese goods. But there's more.

Several weeks ago, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that Chinese spying was "the close challenging together with the close pregnant threat nosotros aspect upward equally a country."

William Evanina, America's top counterintelligence official, said final week:

"Existentially, long term, [China is] the largest threat to our national security, bar none – it's non fifty-fifty close. They direct ungodly resources that nosotros can't grip correct now."

PRC is non merely a trading partner. It is a major adversary. For years nosotros gave PRC favorable merchandise damage piece Beijing unopen its markets to us. That is non gratis trade.

Thankfully, President Trump is fighting dorsum amongst tariffs together with other strategies.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative solid unit of measurement values advocate together with serves equally president of American Values together with chairman of the Campaign for Working Families

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