Allen West: Has the Militarist Right Found its New Warlord?
A Neo-Con in Tea Party clothing???
“I want to start a draft Allen West movement!” exclaimed Glen Beck during his April 21st radio program. The radio personality has been cooing and burbling about West for months. He’s convinced that the retired Army Lt. Colonel – who was cashiered in disgrace for abusing a prisoner in a fashion that merited prosecution under Article 93 of the UCMJ – is the “man of honor” our troubled country needs.
Of course, Beck isn’t the only one infatuated with West: the freshman congressman from Florida is emerging as something of an Old Spice Guy for the punitive populist Right.
“The next president will be either the end or the beginning of our country,” Beck intoned, taking note of the potentially apocalyptic consequences of the metastasizing debt and our continued descent into an economic abyss. West has displayed no measurable interest in reducing the size and expense of the Leviathan State. In fact, the contrary is true: Before being elected to represent a Florida congressional district, West was an employee of the wealth-devouring, debt-propelled imperial military. His career as a hireling killer is what Beck describes as his most alluring trait.
“He has a strong military background,” Beck gushed. “The guy was led through war, and he’s not afraid to pull the trigger.”
With Washington’s legions engaged in three open wars and at least five covert conflicts, it’s clear that the incumbent warlord is not hindered by a disinclination to “pull the trigger.” In fact, under the reign of the Nobel Peace Laureate, Washington’s military entanglements have expanded considerably and deepened dramatically, particularly through the use of death-dispensing drone aircraft.
In terms of bellicosity overseas, a President Allen West would most likely take up seamlessly from his predecessor. The substantive difference between the two would become apparent in domestic affairs: West’s model of an ideal society is the proto-fascist totalitarian state that ruled ancient Sparta.
And now… the rest of the story. …..
Harold
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Wow, what a nastily-written article. Pure venom through and through.
Lt. Col. West is a man of integrity and faith–guess that’s why leftists don’t like him. They neither understand nor value those virtues.
Allen West is right up at the top of my list.
Yep, he’s exactly what we need! He tells it like it is. He’s nobody’s puppet! He has my vote!