You said treaties, and a Russian official said ; we have not agreement… contracts, that we have to fulfill, and those contracts are like any country ; you buy armaments, you buy anything you want.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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It’s not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.
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We don’t say that we don’t have it, we’re still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.
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If the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have [chemical warfare], this could happen, I don’t know. I’m not a fortuneteller to tell you what’s going to happen.
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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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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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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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[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.
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Even a president makes mistakes.
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We’ve been living in difficult circumstances and we prepare ourselves for every possibility. But that doesn’t mean if you’re prepared things will be better ; it’s going to get worse with any foolish strike or stupid war.
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Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.
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I don’t want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.
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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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It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
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No government in the world kills its people, unless it’s led by a crazy person.
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The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some Western countries including the United States, but the only option that we have in that regard is to win.
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