More than a week after Turkey began its invasion of northern Syria, which President Donald Trump effectively green-lit, Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday announced that a vague temporary ceasefire had been brokered.
So the Kurds are supposed to leave their homes now and go … somewhere.
Wow, whatta deal!
“This is a situation where everybody is happy,” Trump remarked later of the announcement, speaking in Fort Worth.
That is all.
A “pause” is not a ceasefire.
Turkey grants 120 hours for the Kurds to get the hell out of Dodge, which means leaving behind most of their supplies and heavy equipment and maybe even civilians to the tender mercies of the Turks. Basically Pence went to negotiate the unconditional surrender of the Kurds, which they will probably reject and the Turks will resume his offensive because Kurds, who are no angels, didn’t comply with the agreement that Pence did for them without their input.
Maybe not the civilians that would have to be left behind… take it to the bank, the cease fire will not last the 120 hours.
Note to Trump: Probably a good idea to reach these kinds of agreements before green-lighting the incursion.
Herr Himmler has decreed the showers will be disabled for 5 days.
Yay, we’re all so happy!!
It’s a Godwin thing.
You had to be there.
Good times.
Difficult to choose but I think this could be my favorite part:
Once the Kurds get out of the safe zone, Pence said, the ceasefire would be permanent.
More importantly, the Kurds just told us and Turkey to piss off. They reject the ceasefire. Say that Turkey and US can’t negotiate on their behalf.
Meanwhile in Trumplandia
“This is a situation where everybody’s happy,” Trump declared.
http://en.rfi.fr/contenu/20191017-syria-ceasefire-trump-hails-great-day-turkey-kurds
Betcha a beer that Lindsay Graham and the rest of the Republicans in Congress, praise the unprecedented good deal that Trump achieved, and you were laughing about the stupid letter… it was a stroke of genius, you will hear in Fox & Friends…
“This is a situation where everybody is happy,” Trump remarked.
“And by ‘everybody’,” he continued, “I mean Vlad and me.”
(Shorter Neville Trump: “Peace in our time!”)
The headlines should be reading “Pence announces agreement with Turkey for Kurdish capitulation”.
This cease fire deal is not only a complete cave in, the only concession that Pence extracted have already been dismissed by the Turks, they even disagree is a ceasefire, it’s just a pause. Art of the Deal indeed!
See his Twitter, he pretty much already did. What a craven, groveling POS.
¨If the Kurds volunteer to be ethnically cleansed, then we´re happy¨ - Turkey and the Trump Admin.
Mike Pence, Lickspittle-in-Chief, rationalizes his boss’s misbehavior and political screw up.
It’s weird to think the 101st Airborne could invade Portugal right about now and it would rank around 5th on the list of noteworthy items of the day.
Yep, that’s what this was all about. Get them back in the fold and give Trump a “win.”