Kathleen Troia McFarland Quotes
Americans don't like to stand by while innocent people are killed and watch a human disaster unfold. It goes against our very fiber. We feel compelled to do something.
McFarland, Kathleen Troia. Opinion column. Fox News, Fox News Network.
One of the strong motivations of Islamic terrorists is the fact that they believe that a Muslim who dies fighting for Islam goes immediately to Paradise. However, terrorists create Hell for innocent civilians and people who have no desire to harm Islam—in many cases babies and young children who do not even know what religion is. While this statement represents the beliefs of most moderate Muslims, it was made after he was out of office. It is doubtful that an Iranian President—a position without much power in the Iranian theocracy where the religious leader rules—in office would dare say something like this when Iran supports Islamic terrorist organizations throughout the world.
The possibility of intervention in the affairs of other counties even if there is no U. S. national interest involved, was not new when the George W. Bush administration sent troops to Somalia and Bill Clinton bombed Serbia. There were appeals made “to our sympathies” and there were serious atrocities. But these modern Presidents were just following the policy clearly stated by Theodore Roosevelt in 1904.
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If we see human suffering and are aware of its extent, most people feel that they have a moral responsibility to do something. So for many people, they prefer not to look. Unlike most of his televangelist successors, Sheen was very ecumenical. He was clearly Catholic but had a very significant Protestant and Jewish Audience.
This speech was given on the Armenian murders, (the word genocide had not yet been coined), in Turkey
Many Americans were total isolationists at this time. This statement was viewed with alarm by many Republicans and some Democrats.
Kathleen Troia "K. T." McFarland is an American political candidate, former government official, and political commentator. She served as Deputy National Security Advisor under Michael Flynn for the first four months of the Trump administration. She was asked to step down by Flynn's successor H. R. McMaster; news of her pending nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Singapore was reported at the same time. President Trump nominated her in May 2017; she withdrew it in February 2018 due to concerns around her answers related to links between Trump associates and Russian officials, in particular about discussions between Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
