Bashar Assad: I will live and die in Syria

[A.Rafay]

Syrian President Bashar Assad told a Russian TV station on Thursday that he would never agree to leave his country.

“I am Syrian, made in Syria, and I will live and die in Syria,” the embattled president reportedly said.

Assad was likely responding to statements made by British PM David Cameron in Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, where he suggested that if Assad wanted to leave he would be assured safe passage.

Assad’s possible departure from Syria has been an often discussed solution to the ongoing Syrian civil war, which has captured headlines around the world and claimed up to 36,000 lives, according to the Syrian opposition.

Cameron said that the international community should consider anything “to get that man out of the country and to have a safe transition in Syria.”

Speaking to Russia Today, Assad said on Thursday that he doesn’t see the West initiating military intervention in Syria as a solution to the conflict.

“I think that the cost of a foreign invasion of Syria, if it happens, would be bigger than the entire world can bear… This will have a domino effect that will affect the world from the Atlantic to the Pacific,” he said, according to Reuters.

“I do not believe the West is heading in this direction, but if they do, nobody can tell what will happen afterwards,” he continued.

Bashar Assad: I will live and die in Syria | The Times of Israel

 

[500]

 

[Feyen]

Before:

After:

 

[500]

What a bunch of clowns. Now wonder that even amateur Syrian rebels kick their arses.

 

[Feyen]

What a bunch of clowns. Now wonder that even amateur Syrian rebels kick their arses.

Tell that to this guys:

Syrian rebels on Hezbollah:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...bloody-assault-on-assads-enemies-8227316.html

 

[tyrant]

What a bunch of clowns. Now wonder that even amateur Syrian rebels kick their arses.

As a neighbor, What do you think will finally happen in Syria and when?

 

[kollang]

ya bashshar ana ohebboka jazila!

 

[500]

Tell that to this guys:

Yup, attacking border patrol jeep is their most glorious operation.

As a neighbor, What do you think will finally happen in Syria and when?

Assad going to fall, but not soon. It will take couple years at least.

 

[raptor22]

What a bunch of clowns. Now wonder that even amateur Syrian rebels kick their arses.

You mean israelian troops are weaker than FSA ? because in the last battle their arses(israielin) were kicked by them.

 

[Naifov]

Ok.
live : No
Die : Yes

good options to the bigot bbashar

 

[500]

You mean israelian troops are weaker than FSA ? because in the last battle their arses(israielin) were kicked by them.

Thats what they tell u? Did they liberate Jerusalem? Did they liberate 7 Shia villages? Did they liberate Shabaa farms? - Nothing. Total failure.

 

[RFS_Br]

Thats what they tell u? Did they liberate Jerusalem? Did they liberate 7 Shia villages? Did they liberate Shabaa farms? - Nothing. Total failure.

Hanging on to tiny little farms doesn't work to hide Israel's broader failure.

"As Israel pulled back from Beirut, the high-water mark reached during its 1982 invasion, its share of Lebanon contracted further and further. Having seized 3560 square kilometres, about a third of the country, containing around 800 towns and villages, Israel found itself in 1985 with only 500 square kilometres and 61 villages, mostly deserted. Hizbullah, which led the resistance that had forced the Israelis to abandon most of their conquest, demanded the unconditional return of all Lebanese territory. Its attacks intensified, resulting in a loss of IDF soldiers that became unpalatable to most Israelis. (...)

On 17 May 1999, Israelis elected Ehud Barak on the strength of his promise to reverse Ariel Sharon’s Lebanon adventure, which had by then cost around a thousand Israeli lives.

Barak announced that Israel would pull out in an orderly fashion in July 2000, provided that Lebanon agreed to certain conditions. The Lebanese government, urged by Hizbullah, rejected these conditions and demanded full Israeli withdrawal in accordance with UN Resolutions 425 and 426 of 1978. Barak abandoned Lebanon two months ahead of schedule, suddenly and without advance warning, on 23 May 2000."

In sum: already by 1985, Israel lost the vast majority of previously occupied Lebanese territory to the Shia uprising. In 2000 it lost most of the rest, withdrawing in a clearly desperate way: failing to extract any concessions whatsoever from Syria or Lebanon, leaving two months before official schedule, and completely abandoning its SLA ally. If it weren't for Hezbollah, no doubt Israel would be occupying Lebanon till these days, and it would have transferred some tens of thousands of those repulsive-looking Brooklynites into Lebanon. These would be saying of the banks of the Litani river what they say of the West Bank: that they have the right to live there because Israel stole the area by force, that God gave those lands to them, etc.

No doubt you're going to try to spin this -- this is why you are on these forums, after all -- but the facts are there for all sane people to see.

 

[PteX]

Hanging on to tiny little farms doesn't work to hide Israel's broader failure.



In sum: already by 1985, Israel lost the vast majority of previously occupied Lebanese territory to the Shia uprising. In 2000 it lost most of the rest, withdrawing in a clearly desperate way: failing to extract any concessions whatsoever from Syria or Lebanon, leaving two months before official schedule, and completely abandoning its SLA ally. If it weren't for Hezbollah, no doubt Israel would be occupying Lebanon till these days, and it would have transferred some tens of thousands of those repulsive-looking Brooklynites into Lebanon. These would be saying of the banks of the Litani river what they say of the West Bank: that they have the right to live there because Israel stole the area by force, that God gave those lands to them, etc.

No doubt you're going to try to spin this -- this is why you are on these forums, after all -- but the facts are there for all sane people to see.

Quite true, albeit you live in a constant state of delusion where the sun is green and the sky is pink.

 

[airmarshal]

Imagine if it was some Pakistani leader. He or she would have been packing up, sending money to overseas banks and preparing to
leave for London.

 

[Meengla]

Al Assad should live and die in Syria. Even if meets the same fate as Saddam or Qaddhafi he is better off living in history as 'wrong' (and ultimately all victors are 'right') but valiant who stood up to the mightiest alliance since the Soviet-Afghan war of the 80's.

Not saying Assad is on the right side or not. But some times people are born after they die. Cowardice is not an option. Personal escape, without ensuring the safety of thousands who stood by Assad, would be immoral. Not now when thousands have died in Syria when there could have been a 'safe exit'.