When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That’s the natural role of any army in the world.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD
If you don’t win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn’t exist anymore.
![Bashar al-Assad Quote - Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don’t accept.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/why-should-you-use-a-term-rebels-in-the-united-sta-683x1024.jpg)
![Bashar al-Assad Quote - [Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/hezbollah-forces-cannot-exist-all-over-syria-anywa-683x1024.jpg)
![Bashar al-Assad Quote - There’s a video on YouTube where the terrorists clearly make trials [of chemical weapons] on a rabbit and kill the rabbit and said “this is how we’re going to kill the Syrian people.”](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/theres-a-video-on-youtube-where-the-terrorists-cle-683x1024.jpg)
![Bashar al-Assad Quote - At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/at-the-end-i-said-chemical-weapons-is-something-no-683x1024.jpg)
![Bashar al-Assad Quote - We don’t discuss this issue [conversations with Russia] as a government, but we discuss the repercussions, which is more important because sometimes repercussions could be more destroying than the strike itself.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/we-dont-discuss-this-issue-conversations-with-russ-683x1024.jpg)
![Bashar al-Assad Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/as-i-said-this-repercussions-may-take-different-fo.jpg)
![Bashar al-Assad Quote - We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north of Syria,](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/we-asked-for-a-delegation-of-the-red-cross-in-marc-683x1024.jpg)
