they re good questions, mahmoud. thank you for taking time to explain for us what it is like for people living under the oppressive bashar al-assad regime. next up, a reporter who witnessed the attack will tell us how people on the street are reacting to what happened. whoooo.
i consider the strikes took a place yesterday night as a pathetic strikes. why? now the syrian people are more desperate and more depressed because they think that regime now is stronger. that for two reason. first, bashar al-assad still capable to produce chemical weapons. second, the message the countries seasoned to bashar al-assad is you could kill your own people in any kind of weapons, but do not use chlorine and sarin gas. let s remember two weeks before the chemical attacks took place. all but 1,000 people killed in ghouta.
impact. it did signal a willingness to strike, an absolute firmness around chemical weapons but it didn t significantly set back the regime. if you re a supporter of president bashar al-assad, you re very happy today, you re celebrating and we re seeing those seecenes in the street. not on because he got out of thissin scat this unscathed b also because the rest of the world, the western world, has signalled they re kind of okay with him staying in power. but there are millions of people, as you know, not on outside the country but 6 million inside the country who don t live in their homes anymore. they live in shelters and camps so to them today is a signal that s not going to change any time soon. a text i got from somebody from syria said today after the attack the u.s. have said that we want to stop assad from using chemical weapons but it basically means he can continue
chemical weapons attacks. why do you think that the action that the u.s. took last night will change the regime s calculus in any way? the action last night at president trump s direction with the strong support of our allies in france and britain was focused exclusively on the chemical weapons program. and we believe that it has significantly eroded and crippled the ability of the regime to produce question calls that they ve been using against innocent civilians. the attack a year ago was against a military base that had deployed that type of ordinance. this attack the president made the judgment was to be focused on the actual chemical weapons regime itself and our hope is that syria and their patrons got the message. but syria should know their
let s ali, let s think about how all of that began. all of that began as a civilian revolution and the people just demanding some freedom and the syrian regime response was launching an open war against its own people. now we hear every day these talks about, oh, we don t want to enter civil war, this is not our job, but this is how this civil war started and people still dying every day. and here there is the question of the principle. every day we hear, oh, the american principles is aovoidin any chemical attacks. is this the only american principle? what about the genocide we are witnessing here in the 21st century, genocide? what about rwanda? what about never again? all of these questions are i ask the american people about.