On the Spot: U.S. role in foreign affairs
The United States is becoming increasingly involved various international affairs such as Syria. In light of America’s recent intervention in Syria, what do you think America’s role should be in foreign affairs?
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Josiah Phillips
I think in cases like North Korea we should definitely step in because they’ve got really bad leadership. They straight up have concentration camps and starving people and they’re working on nuclear missiles, and we’ve got a lot of allies over there like South Korea and Japan. So it’s really dangerous and I think we need to de-escalate the situation and probably get in cooperation with China. ...

Austin Peebles
Get out, because it’s their business, not ours. We got our own business and our own stuff to deal with.

Mitchell Massey
I think it’s important that we’re involved. I think it was a good decision to send the missiles to Syria because it’s important that we don’t let evil be in the world. And if no one else is taking care of it, then we should be able to help deal with it.

Taylor Collyer
I think that what we’re doing is helpful given that the Syrians were able to take over military bases and get their hands on dangerous weapons. Anything that we do that helps out other people, saving lives and everything, I think we should get involved and do all we can to save other people and to keep this country safe.

Luke Wilde
I don’t feel like we have much of a choice but to be involved because we instigated a lot of the activity.

Matthew Pryce
I personally believe that if it’s not affecting us directly, then we should stay out of war. Although I see why some people say we need to engage in war in other countries, I feel that it’s just like the Vietnam War, in that we’re engaging in a war that won’t help is in any kind of way.

Katelyn Cardwell
I think we should be involved in foreign affairs, but I don’t think that should be our main focus. I think there’re things in our country that need to be fixed before we focus on foreign countries, but I think that’s also a very important thing we’ve addressed like Korea, which is an impending threat, so that’s something we need to focus on. Same with Syria, that’s something really sad t...
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