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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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Interest Mold Wanted
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
When you’re in the middle of a storm, leaving your country just because you have to leave without any reasonable reason, it means you’re quitting your country and this is treason.
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Country Leaving Mean
We don’t have a lot of expectations [for Donald J. Trump] because the American administration is not only about the President; it’s about different powers within this administration, the different lobbies that they are going to influence any President.
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Administration Expectations President
How could that army do that if it’s a family army or a sect army ? What about the rest of the country who support the government ? It’s not realistic, it doesn’t happen. Otherwise, the whole country will collapse.
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Country Family Government Happen Otherwise
We can have national dialogue where different Syrian parties sit and discuss the future of Syria. You can have interim government or transitional government. Then you have final elections, parliamentary elections, and you’re going to have presidential elections.
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Government Party Presidential
[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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Borders Hezbollah Reason
[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.
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Enemy Hell People
The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign.
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Campaigns Opposites Talking
We have agreements with many countries including Iran, including Russia, including other countries that are about different things including armament. It’s cooperation like any cooperation between any two countries, which is normal. It’s not related to the crisis.
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Agreement Country Different Things
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
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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Eras President Reality
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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Able Country Doubt
We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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Believe Lebanon Real
You look at [terrorists] faces, they look foreigners, but where are they coming from ? How precise this estimate is difficult to tell, but definitely the majority are Al-Qaeda.
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Estimate Looks Majority Precise
It’s not about me, again, this fight is not my fight, it’s not the fight of the government ; it’s the fight of the country, of the Syrian people.
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Country Fighting Government

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