The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIt’s not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.
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Any American strike will not destroy as much as the terrorists have already destroyed in Syria ; sometimes the repercussions could be many doubles the strike itself.
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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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[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don’t have to interfere in any other country.
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We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call “free Syrian army.” That’s what we said.
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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In the end a lie is a lie.
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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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[Chemical weapons] isn’t about what the United States believe in, it’s about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don’t have to discuss it.
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That’s the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.
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There is no good war.
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We wouldn’t have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state.
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It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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We don’t discuss this issue [conversations with Russia] as a government, but we discuss the repercussions, which is more important because sometimes repercussions could be more destroying than the strike itself.
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Terrorists have been supported by tens of foreign countries, so Syria alone wouldn’t be able to face this kind of war without the help of its friends.
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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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