Letter to President Bush on CAIR
11 August 2006
Hon. George W. Bush
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
On behalf of all those who wish for your success in waging what can best be described as "the War for the Free World," I want to commend you for your forthright statement yesterday that "We are at war with Islamic fascists."
Such a statement is, of course, not only accurate. It is essential to the American people’s understanding of and support for this war that they grasp what we confront: A totalitarian ideological movement whose adherents are determined to destroy non-Islamist Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
You have been attacked by some who seek to obscure the difference between tolerant, peaceable and law-abiding Muslims and Islamofacists. But it is your critics who are misrepresenting the facts when they claim, for example, that you have "equated the religion of peace [Islam] with the ugliness of fascism." We believe that you are doing something altogether different – and laudable: You are making clear that those who use Islam to justify and provide political cover for their totalitarian aggression are at odds not only with America but with Islam, itself.
One other virtue of your depiction of our immediate foe as a totalitarian political movement is that it underscores the imperative of fighting it at the ideological level – the "war of ideas." There is much to be done with respect to this front, and we are eager to assist you in making progress there.
In fact, as you may recall, when I had the opportunity last February to present you with a copy of our book, War Footing: Ten Steps America Must Take to Prevail in the War for the Free World, I told you my colleagues and I had written it for you – to help you fight and win this conflict, using tools that had not yet been brought to bear as effectively as possible. To do that, however, it has been essential to "know the enemy." With your courageous declaration of yesterday, you have made great strides in that direction and set the stage for the other steps we have recommended.
Thank you for your leadership in this War for the Free World. Please redouble your efforts to inform and mobilize the American people so that our country can make common cause with anti-Islamist Muslims and non-Muslims the world over to defeat our common foe: Islamofascism.
Sincerely,
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
President & CEO
Mr. Gaffney is the host of Secure Freedom Radio, a nationally-syndicated radio program heard weeknights throughout the country. He is an associate author of highly acclaimed Shariah: The Threat to America and the publisher of over a dozen other books and monographs from the Center for Security Policy Press.
In April 1987, Mr. Gaffney was nominated by President Reagan to become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, the senior position in the Defense Department with responsibility for policies involving U.S.-USSR relations, nuclear forces, arms control, missile defense policy and U.S.-European defense ties. He acted in that capacity for seven months during which time, he was the Chairman of the prestigious High Level Group, NATO’s senior politico-military committee. He also represented the Secretary of Defense in key U.S.-Soviet negotiations and ministerial meetings.
From August 1983 until November 1987, Mr. Gaffney was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy under Assistant Secretary Richard Perle.
From February 1981 to August 1983, Mr. Gaffney was a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by the late Senator John Tower (R-Texas). And, in the latter 1970’s, Mr. Gaffney served as an aide to the late Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson (D-Washington) in the areas of defense and foreign policy.
Mr. Gaffney holds a Master of Arts degree in International Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Mr. Gaffney’s leadership has been recognized by numerous organizations including: the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award (1987), the U.S. Business and Industry Council’s Defender of the National Interest Award (1994), the Navy League of the United States’ Alfred Thayer Mahan Literary Achievement Award (1999), and the Zionist Organization of America’s “Louis Brandeis Award” (2003), the Western Conservative Summit’s Stephen H. Long Award (2015), the Council for National Policy’s George Washington Military Leadership Award (2016) and the IMPACT Award from Ginni Thomas and United in Purpose (2017).
Mr. Gaffney was born in 1953 and resides in the Washington, D.C. area.
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