[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don’t have to interfere in any other country.
BASHAR AL-ASSADLebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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And let’s say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.
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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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We don’t say that we don’t have it, we’re still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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There’s a video about one of those women who they consider as rebel or fighter who worked with those terrorists and she said “they didn’t tell us how to use the chemical weapons” and one of those weapons exploded in one of the tunnels and killed twelve. That’s what she said.
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This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September.
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We can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.
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I don’t believe that in a couple of months Erdogan and the United States regime, and the Western regimes in general, and of course Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are going to stop the support of the terrorists.
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Without the public support, we cannot withstand two years and a half. Look at the other countries, look what happened in Libya, in Tunisia and in Egypt.
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Some of these agendas wanted me to quit, very simply, so they said “we have all the guarantees if you want to leave, and all the money and everything you want.” Of course, you just ignore that.
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The external support can never substitute internal support, the example that we have to look at very well is Egypt and Tunisia ; they have all the support from the West and from the Gulf and from most of the countries of the world.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.
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You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there’s killing and destruction on daily basis.
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Any American strike will not destroy as much as the terrorists have already destroyed in Syria ; sometimes the repercussions could be many doubles the strike itself.
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