By Allen B. West ——Bio and Archives--March 13, 2016
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I must admit, just when you think there’s nothing more bizarre that can emanate from the mouth of President Barack Obama, well, he takes it to another level. Two years ago, President Obama referred to ISIS — or as he likes to say, ISIL — as the JV Team just to disrespect and dismiss the existence of the State of Israel.
Now, Obama has a new spin on the savage and barbaric Islamic jihadist group.President Barack Obama likened the Middle East to Gotham, the fictional metropolis in the Batman franchise, with ISIS acting as the Joker who shows up on the scene and plunges the city into murderous chaos. Obama’s comments drawing an analogy between the jihadist militant group Islamic State, also known as ISIL, and the comic book villain portrayed by Heath Ledger in Christopher Nolan’s 2008 film The Dark Knight, appear in a long-form piece exploring in depth the president’s foreign policy legacy, which The Atlantic published online Thursday. The cover story by the magazine’s national correspondent Jeff Goldberg, titled The Obama Doctrine, will appear in print in The Atlantic’s April issue.The Obama Doctrine is all about appeasement, weakness, abdication and surrender, with the overall intent being the advancement of our enemies and the abandonment of our allies More...
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Allen B. West is currently President and CEO of the <a href=“http://www.ncpa.org/” rel=“nofollow”>National Center for Policy Analysis, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization, established in 1983. Its goal is to develop and promote private, free-market alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector.
He is also a Fox News Contributor, a Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, and regularly writes for numerous media outlets.