The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThis 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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A bomb is a bomb, what’s the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it’s about how to use it.
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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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Because of this interference for the last fifty years, that’s why they are very good only in creating problems, not in solving problems. That’s the problem with the American role.
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There is no good war.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they’re thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis.
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We are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.
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Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.
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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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Any strike will be as direct support to Al-Qaeda offshoot that’s called Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. You’re right about this. It’s going to be direct support.
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Hezbollah fighters are on the borders with Lebanon where the terrorists attacked them. On the borders with Lebanon, this is where Hezbollah retaliated, and this is where we have cooperation, and that’s good.
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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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You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.
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We 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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There can be no peace without unity.
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But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We’ll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It’s not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.
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We cannot use jihadists because it’s like shooting yourself in the foot.
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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.
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How can you be afraid to feel? Isn’t fear a feeling? If you’re feeling fear, you’ve felt one of the most negative emotions there is to feel.
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This is cooperation [with Hezbollah, Iran , from Russia], I don’t know what you mean by support. We have cooperation with countries for decades. Why talk about this cooperation now ?
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We wouldn’t have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state.
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Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.
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The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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Any cooperation that doesn’t go through the Syrian government is not legal. If it’s not legal, we cannot cooperate with, and we don’t recognize and we don’t accept.
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Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That’s in any war, any war is a bad war.
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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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