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I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

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
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Deterrence

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According to what we've been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe, and let's say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.
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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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[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.
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I think the most important part of this now is, let's say the American people, but the polls show that the majority now don't want a war, anywhere, not only against Syria.
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When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.
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You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies you have everything in Middle East region now.
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Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
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The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
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Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians left that areas to join the government areas, not vice versa. If the majority of the Syrians don't trust the government, they should go the other way.
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As we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So, you cannot judge those people according to what they say. You cannot take them at their words, to be frank.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. That is why we are in contact with most of the problems forever, let us say, whether directly or indirectly.
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Let's be realistic, every terrorist came to Syria, he came through Turkey with the support of [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan. So, fighting those terrorists is like fighting the army of Erdogan, not the Turkish army, the army of Erdogan.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.
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Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.
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If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.
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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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At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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