The Last Black Optimate

(Lt. Col) Allen West is a retired US Army officer, who was forced out while deployed in Iraq for slapping some Iraqi police officer suspected of working as a mole or informant for local insurgents. He is now campaigning for Florida's 22nd district.

Allen West is, in fact, the last Black Optimate.

"You want to dig up Charles Martel and ask him why him why he was fighting the Muslim army at the Battle of Tours in 732? You want to ask the Venetian fleet at Lepanto why they were fighting a Muslim fleet in 1571? You want to ask... the Germanic and Austrian knights why they were fighting at the gates of Vienna in 1683? You want to ask people what happened at Constantinople and why today it is called Istanbul because they lost that fight in 1453? ...

Until you get principled leadership in the United States of America that is willing to say that, we will continue to chase our tail, because we will never clearly define who this enemy is, and then understand their goals and objectives--which (are) on any jihadist website--and then come up with the right (and) proper objectives to not only secure our Republic but secure Western civilization."

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