The Minister of Foreign Affairs also inquired how we got into this situation right now ? and said, "History teaches us that the longer the internal armed conflict and the increase of its brutality, the greater of the influence and ability of extremist groups. Perhaps the Syrian regime and its allies at home and abroad were more than anyone else familiar with this historical lesson." He added that "The strategy of the Syrian regime has been pushing, since the beginning, for the scene which we see today in Syria and Iraq. While the international community has stood hesitant and divided about the support of the peaceful revolution of the Syrian people, the Syrian regime deliberately resorted to the militarization of the revolution, the brutal suppression of peaceful protests and practiced policies of siege, starvation and murder, all with the aim of pushing the Syrian revolution into the incubator of terrorist groups, in order to justify its barbaric behavior as a war on terror." --More 12:20 LOCAL TIME 09:20 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w