A bomb is a bomb, what’s the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it’s about how to use it.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIn the eighties, we asked for international coalition against terrorism after the Muslim Brotherhood crisis in Syria when they started killing, of course they were defeated at that time. We asked for the same thing. So, this is a long-term policy that we base our policy on for years now.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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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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Hamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes to destroy it must destroy an entire people.
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I don’t believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.
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No government in the world kills its people, unless it’s led by a crazy person.
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On the border area with Lebanon where [Hezbollah forces] want to protect themselves and cooperate with us, but they don’t exist all over Syria.
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[Chemical weapons] isn’t about what the United States believe in, it’s about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don’t have to discuss it.
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Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.
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I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.
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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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Circumstances don’t matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
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[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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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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We wouldn’t have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state.
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