Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS Page #4

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A lot of syrian

revolutionaries were very

Upset because it

seems to be saying that,

"look, you can

use scud missiles,

You can shoot

them down in the street,

You can use warplanes.

Anything is fine

except chemical weapons."

Robin yassin kassab:

Then, of course,

He did use

chemical weapons.

Robin yassin kassab: He killed

1450 people in five hours,

In the

suburbs of damascus.

Men, women, and

children, choking to death.

Senator mccain:
President

of the United States called

Lindsey graham and me

over to the oval office.

Looked us in

the eye and said,

"they've crossed the

line, I'm gonna attack.

I'm gonna degrade

bashar al-assad,

I'm gonna upgrade the

capabilities of the free

Syrian army and I'm

gonna reverse the momentum

On the battlefield."

We emphasized two.

We walked out and there

was the usual cameras and said,

"we're with the

president all the way."

Senator mccain:
I'm sitting

in my office and they're on cnn,

The president

has decided not to.

President obama:
My

fellow americans.

Tonight I wanna

talk to you about syria.

Senator mccain:
That

wasn't just disillusioning

To me and

lindsey graham.

The saudis had planes on

the runway when they found out

President obama:
Because we

cannot resolve someone else's

Civil war through force.

Robin yassin kassab: The

red line disappeared.

There were thousands of

defections in that week.

Thousands of soldiers and,

And officers who'd

be loyal to the regime,

Hadn't dared to jump,

they thought now it's going

To change because the

americans are going to get

Involved and they

defected in that week,

But nothing happened.

Robin yassin kassab: Quite

a few fighters in syria,

Quite a few

revolutionary fighters said,

"look, we're never going

to get help from the west.

This guy can do

anything he wants.

He can kill us all with

any weapons that he can find,

In any way he chooses

and the west is never going

To come to our aid."

Zaidoun al-zoabi: Syria

is just a small triangle that

Is hardly

visible on the world map.

You will see that this

triangle is just like the

Heart of the world and

if this crisis is not solved,

Believe me, everyone

in the world will suffer.

Will mccants:
In 2011,

the syrian civil war

Begins to take root.

At the same time, the

american military finishes its

Withdrawal from iraq.

So, the islamic state has

more freedom of action in iraq

And they begin to look

to syria as a place to give

Themselves some

strategic depth.

Robin yassin kassab: In syria,

it looks like isis is a creation

Of bashar al-assad.

It's a creation of his

scorched earth policy.

Assad had in effect an

undeclared non-aggression

Pact with isis.

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