Cardinal McCarrick: No strikes in Syria; don’t repeat mistakes of Iraq

AMMAN, Jordan, Sept. 5, 2013–Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, said he opposed U.S. military intervention in Syria, adding that he was “not in favor of going to war to make peace.” “We made the mistake in Iraq. I hope we don’t make the mistake again in Syria,” he told Catholic News Service Sept. 5 […]