It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWhen you talk about Al-Qaeda it doesn’t matter if he’s Syrian or American or from Europe or from Asia or Africa.
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I cannot afford to make mistakes.
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Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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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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Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that’s what happened.
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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.
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We are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.
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The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.
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Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn’t have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.
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The United States’ credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.
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[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
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Even a president makes mistakes.
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The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.
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The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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