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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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Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.
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Culture Democracy Reality
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’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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Mean Stupid War
We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.
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Country Everything Future Relate
Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington’s approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.
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Doctors Thinking War
You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.
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Different East Middle Party
We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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Believe Lebanon Real
The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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Agreement Defense Logical
Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.
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Different Movement Political
The question is who threw chemicals on the same day on our soldiers. That’s the same question. Technically, not the soldiers. Soldiers don’t throw missiles on themselves. So, either the rebels, the terrorists, or a third party. We don’t have any clue yet.
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Party Rebel Soldier
It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.
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Circumstances Comfortable Country Mistake
I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.
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Average Broke Mind Talk Upgrade Versa Vice
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
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Decision People Political
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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Army Institution Jobs War
It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.
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Difficult East Explosions Middle
We don’t discuss this issue [ chemical weapons ] in public because we never said that we have it, and we never said that we don’t have it. It’s a Syrian issue ; it’s a military issue we never discuss in public with anyone.
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Issues Military Weapons
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.”
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People Rabbits Video
Even a president makes mistakes.
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Making Mistake President
The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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Saving Ships Thinking
If you don’t win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn’t exist anymore.
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Country Terrorist Winning
If the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have [chemical warfare], this could happen, I don’t know. I’m not a fortuneteller to tell you what’s going to happen.
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Groups Rebel Warfare
For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be very happy, they will make sure that their political future is guaranteed.
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Country Political Thinking
The external support can never substitute internal support, the example that we have to look at very well is Egypt and Tunisia ; they have all the support from the West and from the Gulf and from most of the countries of the world.
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Countries Country Example Substitute World
They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.
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People Reality Worry
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.
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Different Government People
[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don’t have to interfere in any other country.
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Country Independent Years
I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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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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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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