 How do you feel about the recent attack on Syria? Very sad. Very tragic. Again, it's meaningless demonstration by our president that just is more of the same. I think we're going backwards. Diplomacy is the way we evolved the world. There's a big conversation here. It was a tragedy, but this sort of reaction to it is childish at best. What kind of reaction do you think we'll be seeing from Russia, from Syria, from Iran? I think it'll be a conversation that's equally blowhard at one level. I think we tend to take it farther away from the realm of a good conversation that could be about the great things. We do have an excellent treaty with Iran in place right now. This will definitely jeopardize that. We've got to look for a way to take the kids out of the playroom or the sandbox and Putin and Trump. I mean, they're just acting like idiots and it's really unfortunate. I love that you said that about the kids in the sandbox, because it seems a lot of our politicians tend to just bluster and blowhard instead of actually making changes. Exactly, totally. And again, other things could have happened over the last few years, but the fact that I've lived my life with America at war, I am sad about every day. And these are wars. We can pretend, but this is war and it's not to be treated lightly. So the official reason that we had this strike on Syria was to destroy some of the chemical weapons factories. Do you think that's accurate or do you think there's something else at play here? I think that the result of the 1917, 2017, 2017 events when Trump first took were totally flonious and they were proved that they had no real impact on anything. He was thinking, well, this is going to be a little bit farther down the field. So he was thinking, but I see no reason or evidence there. And the fact that the Syrians are not letting the investigators come in to really look at it to determine it was there has to raise the question, what is there? Is it real or not real? It's more of this fake news proposition, which is becoming everyday news, sadly. Interesting. A lot of people are saying that the U.S. needs to step in more when it sees human rights violations across the world. Do you think that's accurate or do you think we need to look to our own shores? I think we've got to look to our own shores, but we have to look there but without a gun in our hand. We have guns on the table on both sides now. We have guns in America and guns on the world and it's a tragedy, a total travesty. Is there anything you'd like to tell our politicians today about how you want to see them handle these events? I'd like to bring them, these are declarations of war and I thought, in my understanding of the Constitution, that this is an issue for Congress to decide, not the President to decide. And how can we get a full conversation on all parties going and put out the proper chains of diplomacy? It's interesting that at one level in the news we're led to believe that the English and French are with us. And I'd like to believe that. Miracle, we've got some really interesting people there, but we're just not behaving as we should and have gained the respect to. We should be leaders in the world, collaborators in the world situation and conversation. And we're losing opportunities with demonstrations like we just see. But again, he's too busy talking about other issues of malfeasance of his attorney and other stormy events that have been going on. So we'll just see where it goes. I've got one last question for you. So you briefly brought up that Congress is actually supposed to be the one who's declaring war. It seems recently more and more the Constitution, our government is not being run strictly as it was set out. Would you agree with that? Totally, totally agree. All we can worry about is the Second Amendment, which should be changed in constitutional Congress, and get rid of the whole gun problem to begin with. And that's another congressional issue. And the issues they should be responsible for, like declarations of war and things like that. Nobody's taking responsibility. The Congress is a sham right now, sadly. And hopefully this is a year of change. And it's just not about... Republicans and Democrats talk with respect and discuss, negotiate and lead our country to success. And it's not bipartisan. It is bipartisan. It's not this one-sided affair. Thank you very much for your time. Really appreciate it. Thank you. All right. I couldn't agree more with Bill, but I take maybe a different position because my accent is a German. So I just got you all citizenships. Local boy, Barak pulled me through as one of the last ones before he is down. And so, yeah, it's very sad. It reminds me of when I first came to the United States. It was a quarter of a century ago that dates me. I was in school and my friend, we'll never forget the moment where we went to a little hill that Nebraska doesn't have a lot, but there was one hill we were skiing at Nebraska. And after that was kind of a foggy night and we turned on my little cranky FM radio in my car and they announced the Gulf War. And it was, I will never forget this moment. So I had this deja vu just the past days ago here of that event. And I was thinking, well, again, that was a quarter of a century ago and here we are and things haven't improved for the better. And my peers back in school, they said, how can you go to a country where someone like Bush runs it? And, you know, today I think Bush looks pretty okay compared to what we have right now. So again, I'm very sad about that development here. And coming back to your question that you asked Will about, should we still do that? I believe from a European point of view and I'm probably more patriotic than many Americans. I'm a Maracano and I love America and I probably have a more sort of sentimental view of America or a more nostalgic view, more idealist view. And I think the chance is to basically stop playing world police as America and seeing we're ahead of time, we're the emperors and this is over. Let's concentrate on our own issues and we're architects. So we come from infrastructure and all these things there is so much to fix in the country which I think America when it was playing world police didn't have the time to do that but I think now is the time to basically almost pull out of anything and basically say we're going to concentrate on our own. That's my point. You have a very interesting and unique perspective seeing as you are having dual citizenship here. How do you think the recent events in Syria will affect the balance of power on a global scale? I hope it will not. I mean we're all super freaked out when we heard the news that's declaration of war and it reminded me of the false missile alert here to a certain degree. These are these moments of shocks where you say and you start to rethink where you are but pretty soon you turn on the TV and it was pretty much all you guys all calm down and it's not going to be anything. It's not going to be World War III. And so I think it is just like if we continue to be aggressive it's not going to go anywhere. It's going to have an impact one day or another so I think we need to train now to be as well said to be civil to each other, to talk to each other, try to negotiate things, try to overcome differences. That's definitely the way to go. So when we see human rights violations like we're allegedly happening in Syria what do you think should the US, how should the US respond? I think mainly it's an issue of the people over there and obviously some of them are not able to take care of it themselves so I think we should support them in all civil ways and consult and advise in a way send ambassadors over there. I mean again going back in time when for me when I hear about Jimmy Carter this is probably the last, well I shouldn't say Obama was good too but you know back in the days the president who really sort of and he's still stepping up and he's 94 and not to be taken down and he had cancer and just tried some sort of non-traditional treatment and he went and then he got hospitalized in Canada because he was building homes for architects for humanity. I mean this is a kind of attitude that I think Americans are good at and they've always been appreciated for so just go there and be an advisor or be a consultant that would be a good way. I also want to ask you one more question. How do you think the world, not just the United States not just our president or our Congress how do you think the world should be reacting to human rights violations that are happening all across the world? With care and consideration I would say I don't have a solution how sort of practically but I think you know we should all get together I mean we should basically condemn it and we should all the ones who are thinking about it critically constructively should get together sit down and figure out ways how to basically de-escalate the situation. Thank you both I really appreciate your time. As the United Nations is there for that purpose we should stop belittling the United Nations that is why we are at peace still whether we realize it or not the fact that we are stepping if it didn't exist the White House right now would be very happy and the tragedy we just came out of the UNESCO World Heritage Fund and we stepped aside from that we are not leading, collaborating in this world toward peace or civility or respect for our history at all right now but the UN is an answer that should be used much more effect and support and that's in place it's been a long time. I do have a question for you about that what happens when the countries who are committing these human rights violations are sitting on the UN and have allies on the UN who have their back then what? It's really about the world growing up and trying to resolve things and as long as we keep making excuses like that he said she said they said we won't get anywhere but again there is a forum there to have that conversation and with the quality of leadership that should be there we all have to lead with that yes I mean you made that reference that perfect reference to the kids in the sandbox I mean if there's a kid misbehaving in the sandbox the teacher goes and in best case brings it up and said let's sit down all together and you know what this kid has done is not okay kid you understand that and the other ones see that's the way to go like grow up right and again the media has the potential to lead and not really be again this sort of you know constant 24-7 thing but really the quality leadership editorship the spoken word I mean there is truth there isn't fake news it's all there and we can't belittle your role and turn you into the clowns in the conversation in that regard thank you for doing this definitely definitely well thank you both for volunteering because we had a long search and these were our only volunteers and I'm really grateful thank you everyone