We have to be there to get the evidence like what happened in Aleppo when we had evidence. And because the United States didn’t send the team, we sent the evidence to the Russians.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIf it’s not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn’t have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn’t make national war.
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You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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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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You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.
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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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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.
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This is cooperation [with Hezbollah, Iran , from Russia], I don’t know what you mean by support. We have cooperation with countries for decades. Why talk about this cooperation now ?
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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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But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We’ll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It’s not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.
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We feel pain for every Syrian victim.
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No government in the world kills its people, unless it’s led by a crazy person.
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For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be very happy, they will make sure that their political future is guaranteed.
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When you have terrorism, you have a war. When you have a war, you always have innocent lives that could be the victim of any war, so, we don’t have to discuss what the image in the west before discussing the image in Syria. That’s the question.
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Whenever 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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