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As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when you’re going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.

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There is no such things as “Islamic terrorism,” because terrorism differs from Islam. There’s just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term “Islamic terrorism” has become widespread.
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Differ Religious Term Terrorism
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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Cooperation Country Mean
In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.
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Giving Party Up Years
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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Army Institution Jobs War
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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East Middle New Next Something Week
Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society. You cannot bring it, you cannot import it.
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Culture Democracy Different
Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge.
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Hands Ignorance Revenge
In the end a lie is a lie.
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Ends Lie Lying
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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Example Rubber Use
If the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have [chemical warfare], this could happen, I don’t know. I’m not a fortuneteller to tell you what’s going to happen.
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Groups Rebel Warfare
I cannot afford to make mistakes.
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Afford Making Mistake
There is no good war.
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Good War War
And let’s say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.
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Completely Country Same Style
How could that army do that if it’s a family army or a sect army ? What about the rest of the country who support the government ? It’s not realistic, it doesn’t happen. Otherwise, the whole country will collapse.
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Country Family Government Happen Otherwise
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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Democracy People Self
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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Political Support Talking

As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when you’re going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.

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As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when you’re going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.

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