{"id":39925,"date":"2013-09-06T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/catholic_herald_cardinal_theodore_mccarrick-lets_not_repeat_the_mistakes_o\/"},"modified":"2013-09-06T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:30:23","slug":"catholic_herald_cardinal_theodore_mccarrick-lets_not_repeat_the_mistakes_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39925","title":{"rendered":"(Catholic Herald) Cardinal Theodore McCarrick&#8211;let\u2019s not repeat the mistakes of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, retired Archbishop of Washington, has said he opposes US military intervention in Syria, saying that he is \u201cnot in favour of going to war to make peace\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made the mistake in Iraq. I hope we don\u2019t make the mistake again in Syria,\u201d\u009d he told Catholic News Service on Thursday after visiting some of the nearly half-million refugees who had fled to Jordan, Syria\u2019s southern neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what was worse, either allow Syria to use chemical weapons and do nothing or go in with limited military strikes, he quickly responded: \u201cNeither is the proper answer.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/news\/2013\/09\/06\/us-cardinal-lets-not-repeat-the-mistakes-of-iraq\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, retired Archbishop of Washington, has said he opposes US military intervention in Syria, saying that he is \u201cnot in favour of going to war to make peace\u201d\u009d. \u201cWe made the mistake in Iraq. I hope we don\u2019t<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39925\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,209,143,168,617,141,203,616,154,151,667,108,364,618,556,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-house-of-representatives","category-iraq-war","category-middle-east","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-senate","category-syria","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}