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We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north of Syria,

Bashar al-Assad

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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Agreement Defense Logical
Opposition doesn’t mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
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Arms Mean People
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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Country Petrodollar Thinking Undermining
We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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Country Establishment Threat
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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Different Government People
The American officials should learn to deal with reality. Why did the United States fail in most of its wars ? Because it always based its wars on the wrong information. So, whether they believe or not, this is not reality.
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Believe Reality War
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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Crazy Prevent Spring War
Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means.
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Criminal Mean Thieves
We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it’s like a scorpion; it will bite you someday.
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Pockets Political Scorpions
When people interact and integrate with each other on daily basis in every detail. So, I think in this regard I am more assured that Syria will be more unified. So, the only problem now that we face is not the partition, but terrorism.
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Assure Bais Country Understand
First of all, when you have a doctor who cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene if you have to, we don’t call butcher ; you call him a doctor, and thank you for saving the lives.
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Cutting Doctors Legs
The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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Saving Ships Thinking
No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
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Able Country Doubt
It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
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Accomplish Country Human More Resources
We feel pain for every Syrian victim.
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Feels Pain Victim
Iran doesn’t have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?
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Country Helping Soldier

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