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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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According to what we’ve been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe.
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Men People School
We’ve been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.
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Brotherhood Kind Terrorism
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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Average Broke Mind Talk Upgrade Versa Vice
I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.
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Barack Evidence Transparent
Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army – or outside the government and army.
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Army Country Government
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
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
They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.
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People Reality Worry
People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.
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Aspect Belief People
On the border area with Lebanon where [Hezbollah forces] want to protect themselves and cooperate with us, but they don’t exist all over Syria.
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Borders Cooperation Hezbollah Themselves
Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that’s we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel ; it should be comprehensive.
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Agreement Country Occupy
Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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Diversity Fabric Social
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.
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Democracy Political Reform
If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.
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Anyone People Regard World
Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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Abroad Imported Revolution Should
The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.
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Country Fighting People

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