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Armies are not only for offensives.

Bashar al-Assad

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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
Military Leader
Ophthalmologist
President Of Syria
Statesperson
Sham city
Assad
Army
Armies
Offensive

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Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.
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Those who arrived on America's tanks are not credible in Iraq.
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The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss actually, it's the human resources loss.
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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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[Peace in Syria] is [António Guterres] priority, and of course it's our priority, that's self-evident.
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History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
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We are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.
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Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn't have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.
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Winning is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.
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I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria, first of all by stopping the terrorists from flowing towards Syria, only.
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To have opposition ? We have it, and you can go and meet with them. We have some of them within the government, we have some of them outside the government. They are opposition. We have it.
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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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As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.
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Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.
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The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
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We can have national dialogue where different Syrian parties sit and discuss the future of Syria. You can have interim government or transitional government. Then you have final elections, parliamentary elections, and you're going to have presidential elections.
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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.
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