Rep. Allen West (R-Florida): Right on Obama's Jobs Plan, Wrong on 9/11

Florida Republican Congressman Allen West appeared on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch show on Fox Business this past Friday night to discuss the economic and financial impact on President Obama’s jobs plan which he attempted to peddle to Congress on Thursday night. Of course, West condemns Obama’s jobs plan (which he deserves good talking points for stating the obvious about the jobs bill on which the President wants Congress to vote), but then Napolitano shifts attention away from that topic and veers into the 9/11 remembrance issue (which is today, in fact).

West responds with his comments (which starts exactly at 4:13 in the following YouTube video.
 

West states, “9/11 is a historic event that we must never forget.” A “historic event?” Who is he kidding? One assumes in a single breath that West is likening the 10-year-old attacks to a NASA space shuttle launch. What happened was a horrendous and atrocious tragedy that transpired ten years ago. Of course Americans are never going to “forget” what happened. That shouldn’t be foolishly construed to signify that we must let it rule our lives or shape our way of life for eternity. Americans don’t make a habit of recalling the brutal events that led up to and after the events of that fateful day on a daily basis. It’s more or less a political talking point to fuel the War on Terror than to draw paramount lessons from a tragedy that was born out of the U.S. government’s incessant interventionistic foreign and domestic policies that guided America on its imperial path for decades and after 9/11. Claims by the establishment that the federal takeover of the airports and every facet of American life has made the nation safer are apocryphal and dubious, given the unconstitutional and tyrannical abuses of the State’s TSA and Homeland Security Department agents and officials. It’s all a matter of public record. What will take for West and his cronies to see it?

West then continues, “You know, in this year we’re gonna celebrate the tenth anniversary of 9/11.” Why would any American in his or her right mind would want to “celebrate” such an awful atrocity that claimed the lives of 3,000 Americans who were killed in the crossfire because the terrorists responded to the repeated interventions of the U.S. federal government that have been the heart and soul of modern U.S. foreign policy for decades?

If we really want to pay homage to the fallen men and women in the World Trade Center towers and the planes that went down in those areas, then there’s only one thing to do: end our foreign policy of intervention and replace it with one of non-intervention, bring our troops home from Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, and Libya, and spread the message of liberty and peace to those regions. End the sectarian violence, the coercion, and the corruption that have engulfed the people and their respective lands.

It’s too bad the GOP and its stalwarts including West can’t see that