Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can’t possibly claim that it was successful.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. That is why we are in contact with most of the problems forever, let us say, whether directly or indirectly.
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Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can’t possibly claim that it was successful.
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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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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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If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.
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Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
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It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.
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This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that’s good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That’s the natural role of any army in the world.
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It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
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We have hopes that we can see rational American presidents; fair, obey the international law, deal with other countries according to mutual respect, parity, etc., but we all know that this is only wishful thinking and fantasy.
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