Any Political Solution without Fighting Terrorism has No Value

H.E. President Bashar Al-Assad expressed in his yesterday’s released interview with AFP the hope that the Geneva conference will be able to provide an answer about the date of eradicating terrorism in Syria, and asserted that once the countries backing terrorists stop doing so and when “this terrorism stops coming in, ending the war will not take more than a few months”. Personally, I believe that the absence of a great peace-loving country, like Iran, and the presence of Saudi Arabia, the main sponsor of the wahabi Al-Qaeda- affiliated terrorist would mean but the failure of Geneva 2 before its start. I am afraid that Ki Moon’s invitation to Iran and its withdrawal was but a trap by the ewes, France and the USA as to abort Geneva 2.

Thus, and as H.E. President Al-Assad, the world leader in combating terrorism, “any political solution that is reached without fighting terrorism has no value. There can be no political action when there is terrorism everywhere, not only in Syria but in neighboring countries as well. The other phase of the battle is the fight against terrorism, which we are living on a daily basis, underscored H.E. President Al-Assad, asserting that  we are now fighting one extremist terrorist group comprising of various factions.

In reply a question about the possibility for the Syrian hero Army and the opposition to fight against the terrorists side by side, H.E. President Al-Assad declared that we cooperate with any party that wants to join the army in fighting terrorists, and this has happened before. There are many militants who have left these organizations and joined the army to fight with it, asserting that this is possible, but these are individual cases, but not as an alliance between ‘moderate’ forces and the army against terrorists: “That depiction is false and is an illusion that is used by the West only to justify its support for terrorism in Syria. It supports terrorism under the pretext that it is backing moderation against extremist terrorism, and that is both illogical and false.”

H.E. President Al-Assad added  that the degree of savagery and inhumanity that the terrorists have reached reminds us of what happened in the Middle Ages in Europe over 500 years ago. In more recent modern times, it reminds us of the massacres perpetrated by the Ottomans against the Armenians when they killed a million and a half Armenians and half a million Orthodox Syriacs in Syria and in Turkish territory.

“The other aspect that is difficult to understand is the extent of Western officials’ superficiality in their failure to understand what happened in this region, and their subsequent inability to have a vision for the present or for the future.” Concluded H.E. President Al-Assad.

Dr. Mohammad Abdo Al-Ibrahim