anthony: this café is a typical beirut establishment with a clientele from lebanon, from syria, and any number of other countries. the owners are both lebanese and syrian and acutely aware of the tricky political realities with which they must live. they were concerned about us filming here and wanted us to understand clearly that the café has no political affiliation and that the opinions of this young lady rawan are not that of the café or necessarily even the clientele. anthony: you were born and bred in syria. rawan: i was, yes. i was born and bred up in syria in damascus. rawan: one night, three a.m., the army entered our house, and i found them in my bedroom looking for the free syrian army. my dad knew he couldn t protect us because he was old. three hours later, we decided to leave. so we came to beirut. anthony: oh, thank you. anthony: oh, thank you. rawan: we always eat here.
our way of life and these people want to kill us. and we have to clearly understand what this threat is all about. bill: i want to show our viewers a map. i know you know this all too well from syria in damascus. there is a city called aleppo. if you start in the northwest corner of syria down through mosul that fell wednesday and tikrit that fell the following day and you have fallujah and baghdad and you fill that in where the terrorists, the isis is in control, that s an enormous piece of territory. our saying is if you don t do something now to stop this, what looking do is turn to iran. because the leader in iraq is shiia and he will go to iraq for support and help. what happens then? the fact of the matter is, the iranians look at syria as their client state.
greatest purveyor handoffs my own government. reporter: they say thousands are uniting with one common message. hands off syria. i talked to syrian-americans in new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, and a doctor from syria in damascus, as you saw in the piece. and there are several major worries looming because of these looming major strikes on syria. first of all, of course, the loss of life. and the destruction of infrastructure. they re thinking basic things like roads, flood supply, trash pickup, those basic needs that could be difficult to obtain in the long run. suzanne, victor. rosa flores for us, thank you. critics of a serious strike will protest the president on its door step.
one senator, republican jeff sessions of alabama, a member of the armed services committee took a dig at the president yesterday at a town hall meeting. he aimplied that mr. obama could have acted more forcefully against the syrian regime before the july 21st chemical attack in damascus, take a listen. but i do believe if president bush had told bashar al assad you don t use those chemical weapons or you re going to be sorry, we re coming after you. this will be a consequence. you will not want to bear, i don t believe he would have used them. and jeff sessions right now is one of 56 undecided senators on this vote to authorize the use of force. so an indication right there that the president s selling job is going to be tough. victor, suzanne. brian, we know that the president, he just returned from the g-20 in russia. he met with many world leaders
find hard to believe but that is what we re hearing from people here. but there s this nervousness about strikes, military strikes occurring around an area like damascus where refugees come. it s a complex situation when you start to visit these refugee camps. people want to go home. they have family at home. they re worried about the strikes. it s cheaper to go back home. we were with a family earlier a mother and three children came across the border. a 4-year-old had been injured in one of the explosions had has burns. an 8-month-old, they had to walk from damascus to here which is quite some distance to get to safety. it s not by any means ideal and not by any means permanent either. sanjay, thank you so much. we really appreciate it. you can find out how to help the 2 million syrian refugees. visit the impact your world page.