It’s not religious war, but Al-Qaeda always use religions, Islam – actually, as a pretext and as a cover and as a mantle for their war and for their terrorism and for their killing and beheading and so on.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can’t be tolerated in Syria. I’m talking about the normal reaction of the people.
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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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If you don’t win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn’t exist anymore.
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People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.
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Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that’s we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel ; it should be comprehensive.
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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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I think the Congress is elected by people, it represents the people, and works for their interest. The first question that they should ask themselves : what do wars give America, since Vietnam till now ? Nothing. No political gain, no economic gain, no good reputation.
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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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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone.
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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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At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
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The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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