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It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.

Bashar al-Assad

Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that’s just the way it is.
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Law May Military
None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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Country Hope Trust
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
I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
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Believe Country Fighting Join
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
But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We’ll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It’s not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.
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Crazy Prevent Spring War
Before the 11th of September, in my discussions with many officials of the United States, some of them are Congressmen, I used to say that “don’t deal with terrorists as playing games.” It’s a different story. You’re going to pay the price if you’re not wise in dealing with terrorists.
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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
Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that’s what happened.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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Based Country Should Treachery
Everything else should be a piece of cake. Feel good, feel happy, feel healthy, feel loved, feel abundant, feel creative, feel compassionate, feel knowledgeable, feel powerful.
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Acknowledge Everything Happy Powerful
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.
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Democracy Political Reform
This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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My country and me, we are part of this region, we’re not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me ; it should be as part, as a whole, as comprehensive. That’s how we have to look at it.
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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That’s another question.
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It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.

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