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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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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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Agreement Defense Logical
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
If you ask Americans whether they’ve been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they’ll tell you that it’s a very difficult proposition.
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Border Country Proposition Successful
I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
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Believe Country Fighting Join
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
You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.
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Different East Middle Party
We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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Country Establishment Threat
Before the 11th of September, in my discussions with many officials of the United States, some of them are Congressmen, I used to say that “don’t deal with terrorists as playing games.” It’s a different story. You’re going to pay the price if you’re not wise in dealing with terrorists.
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Games Pay Playing Price Wise
Any cooperation that doesn’t go through the Syrian government is not legal. If it’s not legal, we cannot cooperate with, and we don’t recognize and we don’t accept.
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Accept Cooperation Government
The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.
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Country Fighting People
You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it’s an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas.
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Airports Cities Military
Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can’t possibly claim that it was successful.
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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
Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. That is why we are in contact with most of the problems forever, let us say, whether directly or indirectly.
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East Forever Middle Problem
Syria is in a state of war since its land was occupied for more than four decades, and the nature of the frontier in Syria implies that most of the army is in inhabited areas, most of the centers are in inhabited areas.
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Army Land War
This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that’s good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.
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Believe Reality Successful

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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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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