Bashir Assad Quotes
We have to be there to get the evidence like what happened in Aleppo when we had evidence. And because the United States didn't send the team, we sent the evidence to the Russians.
al-Assad, Bashar. Interview by Charlie Rose. Charlie Rose, PBS, 9 Sept. 2013.
Paul tended to be one of the very few Republicans who did not favor American intervention in Syria.
The Ottoman Turks were slaughtering Armenians; the Russians had pogroms against the Jews, and the Blacks were being tortured or killed if they would not work for the Belgians in the Congo. TR was in favor of interventionism to protect populations and human rights. However, the then President, Woodrow Wilson, was far more timid. See {620612}
Assad and the Syrian rulers not only committed international crimes against the Lebanese, but in 2012 started murdering thousands of their own Syrian people who lived in areas which had people critical of the regime.
This statement was made before the 2012 Syrian Revolution.
The convoy was heading for the city of Alleppo that had been under siege by the government for weeks. 22 UN Aid Workers were killed and half the cargo was destroyed. Syria had been in a Civil War for a number of years, and the Government of Bashar al-Assad had committed one atrocity after another. A cease fire had been agreed to and the UN notified all parties to the war about the humanitarian convoy’s schedule and route. It was not known whether the government had decided to attack the convoy to put more pressure on the people in Aleppo to end their rebellion or the attack was made by local commanders of government troops who did not want to see the pressure on Aleppo lifted.
He used the “united nations” as a general description as the UN had not been created or named yet, However, as this quotation demonstrates, the President was already thinking about a UN idea, but as a realist, he explained that the great powers had to come to some agreement of interests. Actually China and France, at the time, would go along with whatever the United States and Britain wanted to do and had a great common interest, and there was already a strong association of interests between Britain and America. Russia was to be the problem and a complete common interest was never to be, but there was enough to get the United Nations started.
There had been a Ukrainian coup where the pro-Russian President of Ukraine was ousted and a new Parliament elected that was more inclined to Europe and the West. Unfortunately, several of the key members of the new regime were neo-Nazis. Ukraine had a nasty past where during WWII over 200.000 Ukrainians joined Hitler’s Nazis and fought against the 800,000 Ukrainians fighting with Russia and the Russians. The Ukrainians even ran the only death concentration camp no operated by Germans. Russia used the presence of some Nazis and the passage of the first Ukranian law of the new Parliament that prohibited the use of Russian in Ukrainian schools to come to the “aid” of the ethnic Russians living near the Russian border at the Eastern end of Ukraine who had seized the governments of several areas and forced the Ukrainian officials out and with the help of Russian “volunteers” with Russian weapons, prevented Ukrainian troops from reasserting control. In the struggle there were deaths on both sides of the conflict and these were the “peaceful civilians” who were “annihilated”.
Bashar Hafez al-Assad is a Syrian politician who is the current President of Syria, holding the office since 17 July 2000. He is also commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces, General Secretary of the ruling Ba'ath Party and Regional Secretary of the party's branch in Syria.
