Kurds reject the deal...

[SidDithers]

Link to tweet

N/E Syria Official Aldar Khalil:
We've previously stated that the proposal of Turkey's entering a depth of 30 km inside Syrian territories, is rejected.


Sid

[LeftInTX]

1. So much for the "Kurds agreed"

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. the Kurdish political leader Saleh Muslim told local television....

“

Our people did not want this war. We welcome the ceasefire, but we will defend ourselves in the event of any attack … Ceasefire is one thing and surrender is another thing, and we are ready to defend ourselves. We will not accept the occupation of northern Syria,” the Kurdish political leader Saleh Muslim told local television.

“We’ve previously stated that Turkey’s proposal of entering a depth of 30km inside Syrian territories is rejected,” Aldar Xelil, another senior political figure, was quoted by local media as saying after news of the Ankara agreement broke.

In Ras al-Ayn, one of the two border towns under attack by Turkey, warplanes and drones were still flying overhead and ground fighting between the SDF and Syrian rebels allied to Turkey continued.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/17/us-delegation-seeks-syria-ceasefire-after-trump-undercuts-mission-turkey-mike-pence

[SCantiGOP]

3. Two points from the current CNN.com story

Trump said the Kurds were "very happy." Pure bullhsit.
And Trump called this an "amazing outcome." That is true, but the opposite of the sense in which he meant it.
As usual, he ruins it, confuses it, denies it, contradicts it, and then declares victory.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Well they will be slaughtered! They are supposed to

lay down their arms or leave. Surely surely republican senators will stand up to this travesty. Engel said in essence we are giving a piece of a foreign country to another foreign country! How can this stand? And it's a diversion from Ukraine?

[Bettie]

5. You have a lot more faith in

Republican senators than I do...LOL.

On the other hand, I'm betting Susan Collins will furrow her brow in mild distress.

[sobenji]

6. And express great concern.

[Bettie]

7. She may even sigh

dramatically.

But she'll still vote for anything she's told to.

Of course, the Senate doesn't really seem to do much these days.

[IronLionZion]

9. Next thing you'll hear we gave a piece of Ukraine to Russia

oh wait...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation

and Georgia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupied_territories_of_Georgia

We didn't give it of course. Russia just took it

[keithbvadu2]

8. Is Assad 'happy' about Turkey coming 30 km into his country?

Is Assad 'happy' about Turkey coming 30 km into his country?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. So they're saying....they don't want to be ethnically cleansed?

What the hell is wrong with them?

[colorado_ufo]

11. From everything that I have learned about the Kurds, this is what I expected.

They will NOT surrender, they will fight to the last man, woman, and child. They are the Spartans of today.

[lunatica]

12. I agree

They don’t give an inch.

I remember when Saddam Hussein gassed entire Kurdish villages, killing every person including children. They didn’t back down then, and in the end they outlasted him.

[relayerbob]

13. The US has surrendered to TUrkey

To TURKEY!

[spanone]

14. K&R...

[rickyhall]

15. What we have here is a war, an illegal invasion. Why will no one say that?