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.

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

The question is who threw chemicals on the same day on our soldiers. That's the same question. Technically, not the soldiers. Soldiers don't throw missiles on themselves. So, either the rebels, the terrorists, or a third party. We don't have any clue yet.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September. The second thing that we want to tell Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and allegations that they presented.

We cannot use jihadists because it's like shooting yourself in the foot.

Two years and a half and Syria is still withstanding against the United States, the West, Saudi Arabia, the richest countries in this area, including Turkey, and, taking into consideration what your question implies, that even the big part or the bigger part of the Syrian population is against me, how can I withstand till today ? Am I the superhuman or Superman, which is not the case !