The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWhenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That’s in any war, any war is a bad war.
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I’ve never heard of soft war.There’s no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.
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I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.
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Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn’t live in the current time. He’s out of touch with the reality.
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Even a president makes mistakes.
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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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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.
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Nobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don’t have any ID.
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This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September.
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They need money from abroad, they need moral support and political support from abroad. They don’t have any grassroots, any incubator. So, when you stop the smuggling, we don’t have problems.
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The 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.
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We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north of Syria,
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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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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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If you ask Americans whether they’ve been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they’ll tell you that it’s a very difficult proposition.
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The United States’ credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.
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