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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

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They delayed it till just a few days before al-Ghouta when they sent those team, and the team itself said in its report that he did everything as he wanted. There was not a single obstacle.
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Condition Cooperate Day Obstacle Single
We cannot use jihadists because it’s like shooting yourself in the foot.
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Feet Shooting Use
We don’t have a lot of expectations [for Donald J. Trump] because the American administration is not only about the President; it’s about different powers within this administration, the different lobbies that they are going to influence any President.
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Administration Expectations President
Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.
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Differences People Real
History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
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Groups People Support
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
You look at [terrorists] faces, they look foreigners, but where are they coming from ? How precise this estimate is difficult to tell, but definitely the majority are Al-Qaeda.
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Estimate Looks Majority Precise
For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they’re thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis.
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Country Petrodollar Thinking Undermining
No government in the world kills its people, unless it’s led by a crazy person.
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Crazy Government People
You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
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Country Match Military Powerful
We’re talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
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Constitution Responsibility Talking
Let’s talk… we have indications, let me just finish this point, because how can use WMD while your troops are only 100 meters away from it ? Is it logical ? It doesn’t happen. It cannot be used like this.
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Indication Point Troops Use
There’s a video on YouTube where the terrorists clearly make trials [of chemical weapons] on a rabbit and kill the rabbit and said “this is how we’re going to kill the Syrian people.”
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People Rabbits Video
Something that many officials in the West don’t see or don’t realize or don’t acknowledge – and in the interest of the Russian people, because they have been facing terrorists for decades now.
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Acknowledge Decade Terrorist Interest Something
Some of these agendas wanted me to quit, very simply, so they said “we have all the guarantees if you want to leave, and all the money and everything you want.” Of course, you just ignore that.
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Agendas Guarantees Leave Money
America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

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