On Fox, former Trump official claims the Middle East's “normal state of condition is war”
KT McFarland: “In America, we think that the default position is peace,” but the Middle East has “been fighting for 4,000 years ... their normal state of condition is war”
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Citation From the January 8, 2019, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered
KT MCFARLAND (FORMER TRUMP DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER): I always look at the Middle East and think, you know, in America, we think that the default position is peace. And we go to war, we have a war, somebody wins, somebody loses, we finish, we have a peace agreement, we go back to our lives. The Middle East, they've been fighting for 4,000 years. It's been an ethno-sectarian battle and psychodrama, and they've been killing each other for millennia. Their normal state of condition is war, and the peace is when they have pause, regroup, fight again.