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Assad Speaks
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/assad-speaksIn a sitting room off a large marble foyer, I asked Assad what it felt like to be branded a war criminal. “There’s nothing personal about it—I am just a headline,” he said. “The headline is ‘The bad President, the bad guy, is killing the good guys. They are the freedom fighters.’ And so on. You know this. It’s black and white.”
“Let’s suppose that these allegations are correct and this is a President who is killing his own people and committed crimes, and the Free World and the West is helping the Syrian people against the bad guy,” he said. “After five and a half years, who supported me? How can I be President if I am killing my people and my people are against me? This is disconnected from reality.”
“We’re not the ones who attacked Iraq without a mandate from the United Nations—it was the United States and Britain and her allies,” he said. “It wasn’t us who attacked Libya and destroyed the government, whether it’s a good government or a bad government. That’s not the question. Even if you have the worst government in Libya, it’s not your mission, the United States or any other government, to change the government of foreign countries.”
“First of all, you have to be precise about these terms—what do you mean by ‘political prisoner’?” he asked. “You support the terrorists—it’s not a political prisoner. If you support the terrorists, you are supporting the killers.”
“We have institutions—we have a judicial system,” he said. “I don’t have any authority to do anything regarding anyone.” The detainees, he suggested, had all been convicted of crimes. “You have terrorists prevailing in many areas of Syria,” he said. “You have many people dealing with the terrorists—either [because] they are criminals or terrorists or because they need money. But, according to the law, they should go to prison.”
“The whole argument that the United States wants to fight ISIS is not correct,” he said. “This is an illusion and misinformation. In reality, everything the United States has been doing in Syria, at least since what they call the international alliance against ISIS, is to expand ISIS.”
“The real reason is about toppling the government,” he said. “The government doesn’t fit with the criteria of the West or the United States,” he added, without specifying what those criteria were. “They want to change Syria, and we are not going to allow this.” As the guests stood to leave, Assad made it clear that he did not foresee leaving office anytime soon. “If you’re the captain of the ship, when you have a storm, you don’t jump in the water,” he said. “You lead it to shore.”
