Assad Quotes - Page 4

• It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

  Robert Fisk

  Eerie, Soldier, Als

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• Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?

  Robert Fisk

  War, Israel, Enemy

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• Assad is a bad guy, but you may very well end up with worse than Assad.

  Donald Trump

  Guy, May, Ends

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• America is so outplayed by Putin and Assad, and by the way - and by Iran. Nobody can believe how stupid our leadership is.

  Donald Trump

  Stupid, Believe, Iran

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• There's a lot of expectation in the Middle East that post-Obama there will be a sort of tougher U.S. line on Assad, there will be more intervention and so forth. But I don't know if that's going to be fulfilled. If there is more intervention, then I think it's going to go the same way as these other interventions that we've seen in Iraq, we've seen, to a degree, in Syria, we've seen in Libya, you know, that they do really badly. They make bad situations worse.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Thinking, Iraq, Expectations

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [Donald] Trump suggesting to "The Wall Street Journal" that he would stop aiding the rebels fighting [Bashir] Assad.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Wall, Fighting, Rebel

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I would only go to Syria to destroy ISIS. I would not use U.S. troops to depose Assad. But I would support the rebels there. It's okay to support those people who share your view. But for the United States to be embroiled in a civil war in Syria against [Bashr] Assad I think is a big mistake.

  John Kasich

  War, Mistake, Thinking

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 14, 2016.

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• We know that russians are deeply engaged in supporting Assad because they want to have a place in the Middle East. They have a naval base, they have an air base in Syria.

  Hillary Clinton

  Air, Middle East, Want

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Putin has succeeded in many ways in making Russia an essential player there. He seems to have stabilized the Assad regime. And he has limited the options for the U.S. and its allies, you know. He has air control over a significant amount of territory. And he can prevent the allies from establishing a no-fly zone there.

  Corey Flintoff

  Player, Russia, Air

  "2 Willful Leaders Heighten Tensions Between Russia, Turkey". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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• I think it's important to remember the tensions between Turkey and Russia predate this jet shoot down by some time. I mean, Russia's long been Bashar al-Assad's strongest backer.

  Peter Kenyon

  Mean, Thinking, Russia

  "2 Willful Leaders Heighten Tensions Between Russia, Turkey". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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• Bashar Assad has been so brutal toward the Sunni within Syria that he created the space that led to the people of Syria themselves to stand up and try to overthrow him. That led to the chaos which allowed ISIS to come in and take advantage of that situation and grow more powerful.

  Marco Rubio

  Powerful, Isis, Space

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I think it's too late. I think that there's been too much. This all started with the red line, walking away from it. The inability to arm the legitimate [Bashar] Assad opposition.

  John Kasich

  Thinking, Walking Away, Arms

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I don't like [Bashir] Assad at all. But Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS.

  Donald Trump

  Russia, Isis, Killing

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• There is nothing in common between al-Assad and ISIS, they fight against each other.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fighting, Isis, Als

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• President al-Assad and his army are the only force that actually fights ISIS.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fighting, Army, Isis

  Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• The question's whether or not there's an American interest in the Civil War [in Syria]. The question is whether or not a military strike on [Bashar] Assad will cause him to be encouraged to use more weapons or discouraged. It's easy enough to say - and the president [Barack Obama] says though this will teach him a lesson - but his military strike is intended not to target him individually, not to bring about regime change.

  Rand Paul

  Military, War, President

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• I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either.

  Rand Paul

  Islamic, Thinking, Evil

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• Every chance at destabilizing [Bashar] Assad... the bombing campaign causes a flood of refugees into Jordan, there's already half a million in Jordan. I think a bombing campaign - I think it's hard to argue that a U.S. bombing campaign is going to cause less refugees. And I think it causes more refugees and more of a humanitarian disaster. I think it causes, or allows, the risk of Israel being attacked with a gas attack to go up, if we attack Assad. So there's all kinds of bad things.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Israel, Risk

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• The one way, possibly, out of this is for [Bashar] Assad to abdicate and plead, perhaps to Russia or somewhere else. Would save another wave of civilian casualties if we could get him to abdicate.

  Rand Paul

  Russia, Somewhere Else, Way

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• We have Islamic rebels [in Syria] who've been eating the hearts or organs of their enemies. We have priests that have been killed. We have Christian villages that have been razed by Islamic rebels. We have Islamic rebels who say they don't recognize Israel and would just as soon attack Israel as [Bashar] Assad. So really, I see no clear-cut American interest, and I'm afraid that sometimes things unravel, and the situation could become less stable and not more stable.

  Rand Paul

  Christian, Islamic, Heart

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• [Vladimir] Putin supporting Bashar al-Assad, helping with the Syrian refugee crisis and, I think for any republican, he [Donald Trump] has got to stop saying this, because I was with him. I was with him and he said that, it was like, I'm out. I'm out. It's too crazy.

  John McCain

  Crazy, Thinking, Refugee Crisis

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I don't think he fully analyzes the situation. If you destabilize [Bashar] Assad and punish Assad, you do embolden terrorists. You embolden al-Qaida because al-Qaida is on the other side of this war. So, one side wins if you destabilize the other side. So, he will be emboldening al-Qaida and the Islamic rebels. And I'm not so sure they're better than Assad.

  Rand Paul

  War, Islamic, Thinking

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• The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime.

  Mike Pence

  Military, America, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's a brutal regime, in the Assad regime, that is willing to take any measure, no matter how immoral or war criminal acts, to persecute its goals.

  Derek Chollet

  War, Goal, Matter

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Russia hasn't paid any attention to ISIS. They're interested in keeping Assad in power.

  Hillary Clinton

  Russia, Isis, Attention

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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