Allen West Is Pissed About Libya, Part I: Apology To Obama?

Above you’ll find Allen West, talking on Sunday at the second anniversary picnic of Florida 9/12. He is speaking about President Barack Obama’s weakness in the face of Muammar Gaddafi. “I don’t care what anyone says — you can’t win a war from 30,000 feet,” he says. Thank goodness we’re not at war!

But if we are at war, or if West thinks we’re at war, or if West thinks we should be at war and aren’t, what he says next is a bit perplexing:

I don’t know why we’re shooting $567,000-a-piece Tomahawk
cruise missiles at the Libya. You know, back two and three weeks ago we
could have taken care of this situation. If we had done the exact same
thing that Ronald Reagan did back in the early 80’s to Muammar Gaddafi,
when he dropped a bomb in his back yard, Muammar Gaddafi didn’t say a
word for the next thirty years. That’s the only way! That’s the only way
to get Muammar Gaddafi’s attention.

This is met with rapturous applause — which, if you think about it in
context, translates to “Americafuckyeah!” — which, at the event, may
have prevented the assembled Tea Partiers from thinking very clearly
about what they’d just heard. “You can’t win a war from 30,000 feet”
would seem to indicate that West wants us to win a war in Libya;
West’s brief mention of the Tomahawks’ price tag would seem to indicate
that he doesn’t want us to do anything in Libya at all; his statement
about Ronald Reagan’s dropping of a bomb in “Gaddafi’s back yard” would
seem to indicate that we’re doing exactly the right thing. So what’s the
story?

I’m guessing West has changed his mind on the matter, and now supports
our adventure in Libya with every beat of his big American heart.
Because “we” did indeed drop a bomb
in “Gaddafi’s back yard” — in fact, it might have happened while West
was at this picnic. Now, Gaddafi’s compound is a smoking wreck. Imagine
that!

Of course, the decisive bomb was dropped by Britain, but oh well.
If West wants to complain about that, it’s less a gripe about our
doveishness than it is about our sociability. Why shouldn’t Britain get
to bomb something every now and again? Surely West won’t begrudge them
that.

Mr. West, we’ll be awaiting your apology to the Commander In Chief. I’m
sure hearing it will brighten his spirits considerably during an
otherwise gloomy week. Because war is a depressing business. Isn’t it?

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