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With the time, yes we can be worried, because the secular state should reflect secular society, and this secular society, with the time, if you don’t get rid of those terrorists and these extremists and the Wahabi style, of course it will influence at least the new and the coming generations.

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Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means.
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Criminal Mean Thieves
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
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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Agendas Guarantees Leave Money
The second thing that we want to tell Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and allegations that they presented.
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Administration Chemical Congress Evidence Second
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
I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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Country Dies Everything Made
Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.
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Armament May Sometimes
We don’t say that we don’t have it, we’re still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.
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Country Secular Secularism
We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.
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Evidence Precedent Years
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
Every friend of Syria is looking for peaceful solution, and we are convinced about that. We have this advice, and without this advice we are convinced about it.
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Advice Country Peaceful
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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And let’s say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.
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Completely Country Same Style
You cannot be desperate when the army is making advances. That should have happened – if we take into consideration that this presumption is correct and this is reality – you use it when you’re in a desperate situation.
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Army Desperate Reality Situations
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.
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Democracy Political Reform
None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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Country Hope Trust

With the time, yes we can be worried, because the secular state should reflect secular society, and this secular society, with the time, if you don’t get rid of those terrorists and these extremists and the Wahabi style, of course it will influence at least the new and the coming generations.

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With the time, yes we can be worried, because the secular state should reflect secular society, and this secular society, with the time, if you don’t get rid of those terrorists and these extremists and the Wahabi style, of course it will influence at least the new and the coming generations.

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