Story highlights Hasan: Trump's take on Syria has shocked many in rebel-held areas

Hasan: Many doubt whether Trump would act to protect civilians at all

Atarib, Aleppo (CNN) Editor's Note: Roaa Hasan lives in opposition-held Atarib, in Syria's Aleppo province. She is a photographer in the Kermalek 4U Team, a women's rights group, a monitoring officer at the Hurras Network for Child Protection, and a contributor to Good Morning Syria. The views expressed in this commentary are solely hers.

Donald Trump may have a plan, however hazy, to take on ISIS. But it doesn't take into account the Syrian civilians living in opposition-held areas for whom being bombed and massacred is a fact of daily life.

Trump sees Syria in broad foreign policy terms -- a balancing of powers and interests -- not as place where hundreds of thousands have bled out in their fight for freedom.

"Are we better off with Assad?" Trump wondered aloud to CNN in September of last year. "We have no idea who these people [the rebels] are. We give them weapons, we give them ammunition, we give them everything. I mean, maybe it's worse than Assad. So what are we doing? Why are we involved?"

Trump's take on Syria's opposition -- and on the Syrian President -- have shocked many activists and shattered their hopes of finding a friendlier American president who might have been more more helpful to the rebel cause.