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What the army is doing is cleaning those areas, and the indication that the army is strong is that it’s making advancement in that area. It never went to one area and couldn’t enter to it – that’s an indication.
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Army Country Strong
Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.
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Differences People Real
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
Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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East Geographical Middle Political
Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That’s crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday; for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.
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Fighting War Years
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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Army Country Government
The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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Agreement Defense Logical
The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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Saving Ships Thinking
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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Government Opposition Some Within
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 cannot talk about winning the war as long as there’s killing and destruction on daily basis.
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Long War Winning
It’s not religious war, but Al-Qaeda always use religions, Islam – actually, as a pretext and as a cover and as a mantle for their war and for their terrorism and for their killing and beheading and so on.
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Islam Religious War
Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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Country Harmony Interest
People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.
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Aspect Belief People
If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.
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Anyone People Regard World
We can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.
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Stability War Winning
At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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End Killing Massacring
How can you be afraid to feel? Isn’t fear a feeling? If you’re feeling fear, you’ve felt one of the most negative emotions there is to feel.
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Everything Fear Happy Powerful
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
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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Country Support Years
We cannot use jihadists because it’s like shooting yourself in the foot.
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Feet Shooting Use
As we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So, you cannot judge those people according to what they say. You cannot take them at their words, to be frank.
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Morning Opposites People
We are ready to cooperate in any way to achieve stability in Syria, of course taking into consideration the interest of the country, and the will of the Syrian people.
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Country People Way
It’s not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.
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Blame Mistake Others
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.
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Country Rebel United States
Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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Diversity Fabric Social
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.
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