Daily Inspiration Quote by Bashar al-Assad

Assad’s sentence is a velvet-gloved shove: a comparative pep talk that is also a warning. By framing Iraq as "even more" capable than Lebanon, he invokes the post-2000 mythos of Lebanese resistance to Israeli occupation and, later, the spectacle of Hezbollah’s endurance as proof that asymmetrical power can bloody a superior military. The rhetoric isn’t admiration for Lebanese pluralism or statecraft; it’s admiration for a template of pressure - armed, organized, and politically embedded.

The intent is twofold. First, it flatters Iraqi national pride at a moment when Iraq’s sovereignty was being publicly contested and privately managed by outside powers. "Large Arab country" isn’t geography; it’s a claim on regional leadership, a reminder that Iraq should not be reduced to a battlefield for others’ agendas. Second, it quietly normalizes the idea that Iraq can (and should) operationalize its "scientific, material, and human resources" in service of resistance. The word "scientific" is doing heavy lifting: it suggests technical competence, institutional capacity, even a latent strategic-industrial ability - an insinuation that resistance isn’t just martyrdom, it’s logistics, engineering, organization.

Context matters: Assad is speaking as a Baathist inheritor watching U.S. power remake the neighborhood and wondering who gets to set the rules. The subtext is solidarity laced with self-interest. A stronger, more defiant Iraq would pin down American influence, create depth for Syria’s own security anxieties, and vindicate a regional narrative in which legitimacy flows not from elections or international approval, but from standing up to external domination. The sentence lands because it sounds like encouragement while sketching a program.