Daily Inspiration Quote by Bashar al-Assad

A small sentence that tries to do a lot of political heavy lifting: it shrinks a contested regime narrative into something that sounds like common sense. “We, in Syria” is doing boundary work. It draws a circle around who gets to speak with authority, implying that criticism from outside that circle is inherently less legitimate, less informed, less moral. It’s a familiar move from leaders under scrutiny: relocate the argument from facts on the ground to the supposed purity of perspective.

The phrase “point of view” is a soft wrapper for hard power. Assad isn’t naming policies, violence, or accountability; he’s naming perception. That’s strategic. If the debate is about “views” rather than actions, the conflict becomes a clash of narratives instead of a ledger of responsibilities. The passive, almost bureaucratic cadence (“stems from our experience”) adds a veneer of inevitability, as if the regime’s position is not chosen but produced by history, pressure, survival.

Context sharpens the subtext. Assad has spent years framing Syria’s catastrophe as a story of sovereignty assaulted by foreign interference and terrorism. “Our experience” can mean civil war, sanctions, geopolitical proxy battles. It can also conveniently exclude the experiences of Syrians who opposed him, fled, or were imprisoned. The “we” is elastic: it can mean Syrians when appealing to nationalism, and it can mean the state when defending the state.

The line’s intent is less to persuade than to pre-empt: to make disagreement sound like ignorance, and critique sound like intrusion. It’s a bid to control not just policy outcomes, but the terms under which Syria can even be discussed.