While a law student at Arizona State University , Sinema organized pacifist protests , including against the Iraq War . She also opposed the war in Afghanistan at the time . She supported the Gulf War . In 2006 she said she opposed " war in all its forms " . After joining Congress in 2012 , Sinema said that her views on military force had evolved , and that " you should never take military intervention off the table . When you do so , you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors . " Josh Lederman of '' The Hill '' reported that " she said she favors aggressive diplomacy , crippling sanctions to combat proliferation , and swift , multilateral intervention as a last resort " . She supports the use of military force to stop genocide , such as in Sudan , Somalia and Rwanda . She wrote a doctoral dissertation on the 1994 Rwandan genocide that Lexington Books published in 2015
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Kyrsten Sinema