Byron Katie's intention is to dissociate feelings attached to actual situations. Feelings are more disastrous for a person's mental state because it's often uncontrollable, very insistent, and very hard to refute against. That's why The Work tells you to flip statements inside out.
How you can describe political situations or starvation in Africa, for example, aren't The Work's main approach. However, if I feel bad about these incidences from my first person point of view "Starvation makes me feel bad," I can go ahead to question it. "Someone else's starvation makes me feel good" because I'm grateful that I'm not born into such poverty and I have other challenges to face. "I make myself feel bad" because I didn't contribute anything to starving kids in Africa, so why don't I donate time, strength or money to people of poorer places.
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