Circumstances don’t matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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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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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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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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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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When you have terrorism, you have a war. When you have a war, you always have innocent lives that could be the victim of any war, so, we don’t have to discuss what the image in the west before discussing the image in Syria. That’s the question.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be very happy, they will make sure that their political future is guaranteed.
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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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You said treaties, and a Russian official said ; we have not agreement… contracts, that we have to fulfill, and those contracts are like any country ; you buy armaments, you buy anything you want.
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At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
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It’s our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.
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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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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That’s another question.
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