We’re talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to call it ; if you strike somewhere, you have to expect the repercussions somewhere else in different forms in ways you don’t expect.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe United States’ credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.
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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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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.
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In the end a lie is a lie.
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We’ve been living in difficult circumstances and we prepare ourselves for every possibility. But that doesn’t mean if you’re prepared things will be better ; it’s going to get worse with any foolish strike or stupid war.
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In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.
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This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September.
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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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I don’t want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.
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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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The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.
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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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As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own… Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.
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We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north of Syria,
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In any war, people will pay the price.
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