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Assad rejects security cooperation with the West
Daily Mail ^ | 12:17 BST, 20 August 2017 | Associated Press

Posted on 08/20/2017 10:53:32 AM PDT by Vostok-1

He said Syria will look east when it comes to political, economic and cultural relations.

"The direct support of our friends, politically, economically and militarily, made our advance on the ground greater and the losses of war less. Therefore, they are our partners in these achievements on the road to crush terrorism," Assad said.

"Let's be clear. There will be no security cooperation nor opening of embassies or even a role for some countries that say that they want to play a role in ending the crisis in Syria before they clearly and frankly cut their relations with terrorism," Assad said. "At that point maybe we can speak about opening embassies."

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: assad; middleeast; syria
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1 posted on 08/20/2017 10:53:32 AM PDT by Vostok-1
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To: Vostok-1

Can you blame him?


2 posted on 08/20/2017 10:54:58 AM PDT by Parmy
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To: Parmy

Not only did you beat me to that comment, you did it word for word.


3 posted on 08/20/2017 10:56:54 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Vostok-1

Come on! The previous president only funded a bloody civil war to unseat you!


4 posted on 08/20/2017 10:57:06 AM PDT by struggle (The)
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To: Parmy

Guess he doesn’t like John McCain’s jihadi buddies.


5 posted on 08/20/2017 10:59:00 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Vostok-1

So... “not yet”.


6 posted on 08/20/2017 11:00:03 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Vostok-1
He's Russia buddy. We need to reverse course and get all our troops out of there.


7 posted on 08/20/2017 11:08:07 AM PDT by McGruff (2017 or 1984?)
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To: Parmy
He either acts in the interests of America or he and is gone.

Assad is a marked man to every senior officer in the US military for his role supporting the insurgency in Iraq. He is responsible for the deaths of many American soldiers and his allies in Iran are responsible for many more

He has a chance to make good and live.

That said, he deserves credit for helping derail obama’s Arab Spring Muslim Brotherhood hostile takeover of the Middle East and the rise if the Islamic State

The melt down of the Middle East and the invasion of Europe by Islamist “refugees” is bad enough as it is but can anyone imagine where we would be if Obama's Arab Spring plan had succeeded and Assad had fallen to ISIS, MB Islamist Mohammed Morsi was still in power in Egypt and Benghazi never intervened to shine light on what Obama and Hillary Clinton were up to in Libya?

8 posted on 08/20/2017 11:10:55 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: rdcbn

He either acts in the interests of America or he and is gone.


He is protected by Putin and has nothing to fear.


9 posted on 08/20/2017 11:14:50 AM PDT by TTFX
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To: Parmy
Can you blame him?

All that stuff about wanting to kill you, Bashar, and impose Al Qaeda in your place? Just a misunderstanding! Obama didn't mean it. Honest! And John McCain - deep down, he's a good guy. Really! He just gets a little crazy sometimes....he's now taking meds to quiet the voices in his head telling him to invade the mid-east.

10 posted on 08/20/2017 11:18:09 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Parmy

“Can you blame him?”

Just what I was thinking.


11 posted on 08/20/2017 11:29:02 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: McGruff

Would be helpful if you understood that the Syrians want Assad to be their Pres.


12 posted on 08/20/2017 11:36:07 AM PDT by happytrumper
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To: happytrumper

Referencing “you”, meaning our Pres.


13 posted on 08/20/2017 11:39:00 AM PDT by happytrumper
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To: TTFX

Looking “ east” means Iran

and China too

The outlook for his coalition is better than the outlook for ours


14 posted on 08/20/2017 11:51:49 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: Parmy

Nope.


15 posted on 08/20/2017 11:52:01 AM PDT by WatchungEagle
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To: silverleaf

Looking “ east” means Iran

and China too

The outlook for his coalition is better than the outlook for ours


I think there are some long standing predictions about that potential coalition and they are not good


16 posted on 08/20/2017 11:57:31 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Vostok-1

He probably saw what happened to Gaddafi after cooperating with the west.


17 posted on 08/20/2017 12:08:04 PM PDT by McGruff (2017 or 1984?)
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To: Vostok-1

Seems reasonable. After all, some countries have violated their sovereignty (you know who).


18 posted on 08/20/2017 2:47:25 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: Vostok-1

Assad speaking of the Western Project to put the Muslim Brotherhood in Control. (English Subtitles)

https://mobile.twitter.com/walid970721/status/899356298847944705/video/1


19 posted on 08/20/2017 8:29:11 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Donald Trump will ban auto-correct with an Executive Order. Go Trump!)
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