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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.

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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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Police Thinking World
It’s not about me, again, this fight is not my fight, it’s not the fight of the government ; it’s the fight of the country, of the Syrian people.
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Country Fighting Government
America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
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Country Interest Sees
In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.
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Giving Party Up Years
We’re not like the American administration, we’re not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we’ll announce it.
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Government Media Reality
Hezbollah fighters are on the borders with Lebanon where the terrorists attacked them. On the borders with Lebanon, this is where Hezbollah retaliated, and this is where we have cooperation, and that’s good.
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Borders Country Lebanon
As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when you’re going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.
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Different Government People
Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don’t accept.
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Country Rebel United States
Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself.
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Fighting People Something Terrorist
I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
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Believe Country Fighting Join
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
From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.
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Country Support Years
Al-Qaeda has one ideology and they go back to the same leadership in Afghanistan or in Syria or in Iraq. That’s the question. You have tens of thousands of foreigners, that’s definitely correct. We are fighting them on the ground and we know this.
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Fighting Leadership Question Same
Any strike will be as direct support to Al-Qaeda offshoot that’s called Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. You’re right about this. It’s going to be direct support.
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Country Islamic Support
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
I think the Congress is elected by people, it represents the people, and works for their interest. The first question that they should ask themselves : what do wars give America, since Vietnam till now ? Nothing. No political gain, no economic gain, no good reputation.
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Country Thinking War

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