Kathleen Troia “KT” McFarland is a national security commentator and columnist who appears weekly on a number of TV, online and national radio programs. Ms. McFarland held national security posts in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan Administrations, and received the Defense Department’s highest civilian award. She ran as a Republican candidate for the US Senate from New York in 2006.

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• Arming Syria’s rebels not the answer, here’s what US must do
• Reasons behind Susan Rice’s controversial promotion
• McFarland: Rice will be a ‘weak’ national security adviser
• Rice Nomination Draws Scrutiny
• Democrats prepare as House investigates Benghazi audit

• DefCon 3 6/19/2013
• Obama draws far smaller crowd for Berlin visit than in '08
• Did Obama drop the ball on Syria?
• What is Russia’s role in Syria?
• DefCon 3: Live from Jerusalem