We are ready to cooperate in any way to achieve stability in Syria, of course taking into consideration the interest of the country, and the will of the Syrian people.
BASHAR AL-ASSADConversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.
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Those fighters, the Syrian part that you’re talking about, lost its natural incubators in the Syrian society – they don’t have incubators anymore ; that’s why they have incubators abroad.
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You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
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You cannot be desperate when the army is making advances. That should have happened – if we take into consideration that this presumption is correct and this is reality – you use it when you’re in a desperate situation.
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When you have terrorists, you don’t throw at them balloons or you don’t use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.
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I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
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This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.
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Circumstances don’t matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
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Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington’s approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.
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The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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When you have terrorism, you have a war. When you have a war, you always have innocent lives that could be the victim of any war, so, we don’t have to discuss what the image in the west before discussing the image in Syria. That’s the question.
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Iran doesn’t have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?
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I cannot afford to make mistakes.
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When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria.
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We’re not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We’re not sure that anything happened.
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It’s not about me, again, this fight is not my fight, it’s not the fight of the government ; it’s the fight of the country, of the Syrian people.
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