Meet Kassem Eid
Meet Kassem Eid. Kassem is a survivor of the August 21, 2013 Syrian regime chemical attack. Doctors had given him up for dead but he woke up 30 minutes later screaming in agony and surrounded by corpses. He relates the emotional trauma he experienced watching video of Assad's latest sarin gas attack on his people.
Kassem relates that an even worse moment came when Obama cancelled his red line. Kassem escaped Syria in 2014 and came to America hoping to persuade Obama to stop the genocide. He spent 2 years speaking at think tanks, universities, the State Department, Congress, the Pentagon, and the National Security Council only to conclude that nothing would change Obama's mind.
He now resides in Germany and explains that the Syrian people did not rebel against Assad to gain entry to the United States. They rebelled he explains because they wanted to live as equals in their own country.
Kassem says that Trump did more with one strike against ISIS than Obama did in the previous six years. He thanked Trump for his brave action of striking back against Assad and holding him accountable for his latest massacre of civilians. Kassem holds out hope and encourages Trump to do more to rid his nation of Assad and ISIS.
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