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Rep. Allen West appeared on the Laura Ingraham show and said Obama displays “third world dictator-like arrogance.” West says around the 3:11 mark: What you continue to see is a third world dictator-like arrogance, that’s what I saw in that speech [by Obama] last week. And look, Laura, to borrow a phrase from Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the chickens are coming home to roost. And around 3:58: This whole talk about shared prosperity–that really gives me the goosebumps because I’m starting to believe that a community organizer is nothing but a low-level socialist agitator.

Last week, the Center for Security Policy’s National Security Group on Capitol Hill was the forum for a special event which included Rep. Allen West (R-FL), former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith and the Center’s Senior Fellow for Middle East Affairs, Caroline Glick. Transcripts of their remarks will appear in a forthcoming edition of National Security Policy Proceedings, a quarterly journal of opinion published by the Center for Security Policy Press and available in paperback at Amazon.com. Rep. Allen West (R-FL) spoke on the topic of defense budget cuts, how much to spend on deterrence, and much more.