This week, I interviewed students about their opinions regarding the conflicts going on with Syria. I got answers from forty students who were willing to share their concern and opinion with me.

• Shandi Hahn: “It is against the Geneva Convention. I think we should retaliate.”
  
• Lizzie Cummins: “We need to stay out of other people’s business.”
• Tamlinn Castellana: “Leave Syria alone. Another war will start and it won’t do much. It is like spanking a kid for hitting someone.”
• Delilah Perea: “Why should we get involved if it will create more of a mess for the U.S.?”
• Michael Proctor: “Syria is messed up [so] we should get involved and tell them no.”
• Hannah Reese: “I honestly don’t follow up on it; it does not seem important to me.”
• Evan Nordin: “We don’t have the full story, [and] we shouldn’t intervene until we have more information.”
• Meagan Crowder: “Syria is wrong, but I have mixed feelings on military action.”
• Rafeal Schoellmann: “We should court martial them, not air strike so we don’t have war.”
• Austin Garner: “The Syria situation is inhumane. I have mixed opinions because it will problems for the United States.”
• Elizabeth Rivers: “Syria is wrong and we need them with troops not missiles.”
• Ryan Orbeta: “The Syrian government is wrong. There should not be any ground movement, but we should still interfere.”
• Kelley Terrell: “We are letting bad things happen and someone needs to step up and do something.”
• Jacob James: “I don’t believe in U.S. intervention. There is no sense in sending missiles to kill more civilians.”
• Skye Fowler: “America shouldn’t be world police. George Washington said we shouldn’t get involved in foreign affairs we should stay mutual.”
• Jasmine Goodset: “We shouldn’t not do anything, but we should stay aware.”
• Gabrielle Martinez: “This is an unnecessary war. It will cause more post traumatic stress disorder and soldier suicide.”
• Maddie Dieck: “This is unnecessary U.S. involvement. It is their problem, not ours.”
• Dakota Stewart: “I think we should strike Syria because it is not okay to gas children.”
• Abigail Hayward: “We should step in Syria needs help, but we should reason with them first, not bomb them.”
• Alex Cottrell: “The U.S. should not get involved. America is not the world police.”
• Joseph Hanawatt: “We have been involved too many times in the past and it does not go well, so we need to stay out now.”
• Kendra Smith: “It is right to take action. It is not okay for Syria to attack their own people.”
• Nicholas Perez: “America is power hungry; it is Syria’s war not ours.”
• Miles Meckley: “No country supports the U.S. so we shouldn’t go.”
• Sarah Dunn: “Either way, this is a negative situation.”
• Janelle Heller: “We should stayout because it will cause more problems for the U.S.”
• Hunter Ross: “We should attack as a warning but be cautious of World War 3.”
• Sky Ward: “We should not go; we don’t want another war.”
• Jack Densmore: “We should look at the whole world, not just the U.S. government. We should deal with it not attack them.”
• Sandra Lopez: “We should educate ourselves before we get involved.”
• Katie Allison: “It is not our job to help them.”
• Martin Nwakamma: “If it is true, it is fair for us to help and set an example of justice.”
• Carlos Ramirez: “We should go; they need help.”
• Michael Gonzales: “We should help, but not fight.”
• Brain Tubomemi: “We need to stay informed before making decisions.”
• Hunter Gage: “Action is necessary. It is unacceptable for Syria to attack their own people. Instead of a military strike we should negotiate with Russia, not Syria.”
• Joey Tkech: “I don’t think we should go, but I do understand the need to go. Something needs to be done.”