Destroying the country in order to save it.

PositionNo Comment - Quotation of Bashar al-Assad - Quotation

During a speech to parliament, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad defended his crackdown on opponents and civilians. "When a surgeon in an operating room ... cuts and cleans and amputates, and the wound bleeds, do we say to him, 'Your hands are stained with blood?'...

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