Ceasefire in Syria just announced after Pompeo/Pence visit.

5 days is huge for evacuating non combatants.

Hopefully the commie terrorists won't try to use them as shields.

And the Turks and Kurds will know the people who remain are there to fight.

 

Perhaps Trump could have warned the Kurds what was coming and they could have pulled out the women and children BEFORE the bombs started falling. I would have been OK with that. Was that so much to ask after they fought along-side our troops? Really?

 

Why didn't Trump warn the Kurds what was coming so they could have done that BEFORE the bombs started falling? Was that really so much to ask of Trump considering these people fought along-side our Troops? WTF, dude. Really?

 

You would think Trump was a dick head regardless of what he did.

And Trump would be attacked by dems and the media no matter what he did.

He just does not care about that.

 

They knew what was coming because they have been fighting Turkey on both sides of the border for years.

 

So let me guess Daniel was all for staying over there forever in harms way for no reason? This was happening the day we left either way, Turkey want's a 30 mile buffer, they get 20 miles. They want to send all the refuges back to their country in this buffer, which is what most responsible countries would want. That's life in the middle east and I'm tired of trying to force our will over there. I'm tired of our guys in harms way can't believe the lefties have turned into warmongers.

 

No. I'm asking you. Why didn't Trump warn these people what he was going to do so that they could pull the children out of harms way?

Why?

No wishy washy answers. Just tell me why.

 

There was a peace of sorts BEFORE Trump pulled the Troops. WHY wouldn't he have at least started negotiations BEFORE pulling the troops instead of going into crisis mode AFTER the deed was done? Was that really such a hard thing to do for people who had fought along-side of our troops.

 

Lots O'lefties appear to have been personally in that meeting. Damn, they are a privileged bunch.

 

They did not know there was going to be an instantaneous rebalancing of power that would put their children at risk. Why was is so hard for Trump to warn people who had fought along-side our troops?

 

I called nothing a coincidence. I said Trump had virtually nothing to do with the ceasefire aside from maybe asking Pence for an assist.

 

For the very same reason Obama threw the Kurds under the bus. Turkey is a NATO member (2nd biggest army), one of the most important American bases is in Turkey etc...Erdogan just lost his patience and 'kndly' asked U.S soldiers to move out of the way. Ask yourself a question. Who is more important ally to the USA, Turkey or the Kurds? You can't have it both ways. But it appears that Trump somehow pulled off the impossible, the Turks and the Kurds agreed on something.

 

It's a five day cease fire brought about because Russia moved in to back the Syrians and Turkey has a much more problematic relationship with Russia because of it's proximity. This had little to do with Trump's discarded letter.

 

Its remarkable.

 

No one said this has anything to do with the letter. There is bad blood between the Turks and the Kurds. Centuries of enmity. Erdogan wants to establish a buffer zone so the Kurds cannot use their artillery to reach targets in Turkey. You've got to be fair. Obama's administration enabled Erdogan to become a dictator. They had the opportunity to stop him and failed. Now the world has to deal with the consequences.

 

So according to you Trump now is ISIS and Obama mixed into one... because that is who started this mess, Trump works to untangle America from the whole disaster and you blame him for starting it.. typical

 

No, that's not what I said. Obama helped cause the current Civil War. That was never under contention.

Trump started this particular mess between Turkey and the Kurds. Pretty easy to figure that out if you read the whole thread....

 

Press conference from earlier today. Kudo's to Pence and Pompeo.

 

Well this deal is not as sweet as the Trump Admin is proclaiming. If Turkey stops hostilities, great, if not, just one more blight on Trump's foreign policy.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/vic...6345538&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_hero_hed
US, Turkey reach agreement on Syria, but differ over whether it's a ceasefire or pause in operations

 

I agree...

 

I just listened to the Pence press conference-hostilities are stopped, the kurds signed a peace agreement with Syria, and the ceasefire is for 5 days, at which point hostilities return unless the kurds have stopped fighting in the 20 mile safe zone along the border which protects Turkey from communist kurd artillery.

 

Erdogan was elected by his own people - please tell me how Obama was supposed to "stop" that? Invade?

 

So Trump's great negotiating skills are, "Give the Turks everything they wanted and my Trump Towers in Istanbul is safe ...". Wow.

 

Kurdish military leader agrees on ceasefire...

https://twitter.com/mutludc/status/...mbed/djcbb8?responsive=true&is_nightmode=true

 

Bull****.

The Syrian mess was 7 years of Obama's ****ed up 8.