Any external support, if you want to call it support, let’s use this world, is… how to say… it’s going to be additional, but it’s not the base to depend on more than the Syrian support.
BASHAR AL-ASSADAny external support, if you want to call it support, let’s use this world, is… how to say… it’s going to be additional, but it’s not the base to depend on more than the Syrian support.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWithout the public support, we cannot withstand two years and a half. Look at the other countries, look what happened in Libya, in Tunisia and in Egypt.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThink 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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADYou have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.
BASHAR AL-ASSADNone of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThose fighters, the Syrian part that you’re talking about, lost its natural incubators in the Syrian society – they don’t have incubators anymore ; that’s why they have incubators abroad.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWhen 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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADEven a president makes mistakes.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe 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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIt’s not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.
BASHAR AL-ASSADYou want me to believe American evidence and don’t want me to believe the indications that we have. We live here, this is our reality.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe’re talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThose who arrived on America’s tanks are not credible in Iraq.
BASHAR AL-ASSADHizbullah is not a militia.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThis is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.
BASHAR AL-ASSADRussia is very important, Iran is very important, Hezbollah is very important. All of them are important. Each one made important achievements against the terrorists in Syria, so it’s difficult to say who is more important than the other.
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