We’re talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
BASHAR AL-ASSADHistory teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
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[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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Some of these agendas wanted me to quit, very simply, so they said “we have all the guarantees if you want to leave, and all the money and everything you want.” Of course, you just ignore that.
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Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn’t live in the current time. He’s out of touch with the reality.
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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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And let’s say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.
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Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it’ll soon happen elsewhere.
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We cannot use jihadists because it’s like shooting yourself in the foot.
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We’re not sure that if there’s chemical weapon used and who used it. We can’t talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself.
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We can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.
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You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
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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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In 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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Trust that the thing in life that excites you the most comes complete with all the tools necessary to support you in the doing of that thing. It is automatic; it is built in. All you need to do is act on the opportunities that doing that situation brings to you.
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