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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADActually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that’s what happened.
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Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army – or outside the government and army.
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We’re talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
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We are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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Terrorists have been supported by tens of foreign countries, so Syria alone wouldn’t be able to face this kind of war without the help of its friends.
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When you have terrorists, you don’t throw at them balloons or you don’t use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.
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From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.
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To have opposition ? We have it, and you can go and meet with them. We have some of them within the government, we have some of them outside the government. They are opposition. We have it.
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Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.
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Let’s presume that a country or army has this weapon ; this kind of armaments cannot be used by infantry for example or by anyone. This kind of armament should be used by specialized units, so it cannot be in the hand of anyone.
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If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That’s the natural thing.
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It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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That’s the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.
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If you don’t win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn’t exist anymore.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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