We have hopes that we can see rational American presidents; fair, obey the international law, deal with other countries according to mutual respect, parity, etc., but we all know that this is only wishful thinking and fantasy.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThey 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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With the time, yes we can be worried, because the secular state should reflect secular society, and this secular society, with the time, if you don’t get rid of those terrorists and these extremists and the Wahabi style, of course it will influence at least the new and the coming generations.
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Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself.
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If you don’t win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn’t exist anymore.
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I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.
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We don’t have a lot of expectations [for Donald J. Trump] because the American administration is not only about the President; it’s about different powers within this administration, the different lobbies that they are going to influence any President.
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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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The Russians are fighting for us, for the world, and for their self.
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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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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.
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I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.
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If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.
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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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Did the President order anyone to kill civilians, did he order the destruction, did he order supporting terrorism in his country? Of course not.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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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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