Turkey agrees to Syria ceasefire: Vice President Mike Pence

abc ^ | October 17, 2019 | ByCONOR FINNEGANandBEN GITTLESON

[Jim Robinson]

Turkey has agreed to a ceasefire in northern Syria between its forces and their allied rebels and U.S.-backed Syrian Kurds, Vice President Mike Pence announced.

[piasa]

The SDF is an umbrella name for a number of ethnic groups, not all of them Kurdish, but the largest group in the SDF the Kurdish YPG ... they are secular, as communists generally are, which makes them useful for fighting islamists [in the same way it was useful to pit Iranians against Baathists in Iraq to weaken each other] but as many are communists, one should not think they are good guys just because they kill bad guys. Those that are communists will be every bit as dangerous if they ever get power.

Signatory groups
The following groups signed the founding document:
People’s Protection Units (Yekîneyên Parastina Gel, YPG)
Women’s Protection Units (Yekîneyên Parastina Jin, YPJ)
Al-Sanadid Forces
Syriac Military Council (Mawtbo Fulhoyo Suryoyo, MFS)
Liwa Thuwwar al-Raqqa
Euphrates Volcano
Army of Revolutionaries (Jaysh al-Thuwar, JAT)
99th Infantry Brigade
Brigade Groups of al-Jazira
On 10 December 2015, after a two-day conference, The Syrian Democratic Council was established as a political platform of the SDF. Human rights activist Haytham Manna was co-chairman at its founding.[95] The Assembly that established the Syrian Democratic Council was made up of 13 members from specific ethnic, economic and political backgrounds.

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According to U.S. Special Forces Commander General Raymond A. Thomas at the Aspen Security Forum in July 2017, the SDF is a PR-friendly name for the YPG, which Thomas personally suggested because the YPG is considered an arm of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. government.[8] [9] American Defense Secretary Ashton Carter confirmed “substantial ties” between the PYD/YPG and the PKK.[10] Testifying to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Congress, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, the top U.S. intelligence official, explicitly defined the YPG as the “PKK’s militia force in Syria”.[11] [12] Turkey has designated the YPG as a terrorist organization,[7] and in 2018 Turkey captured most of Afrin Canton from the YPG.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Rather, what did we win by any war in the middle east?

[CJ Wolf]

I thought about that. Best I can come up with is we kicked the can down the road.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks JimRob, but I won't be doing this -- Read more at abcnews.go.com

[deks]

Re: the stupid 129 Republicans who voted against the Prez on Syria, and the 60 who stuck with him

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16-October-2019 Final Vote Results

H.J.Res. 77: Opposing the decision to end certain United States efforts to prevent Turkish military operations against Syrian Kurdish forces in Northeast Syria

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/116-2019/h560

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll560.xml

[pollywog]

I must say I was VERY IMPRESSED with the VP... I may
stand alone but think he would eventually make a GREAT
President!

[billyboy15]

You know, had the Repubs in the Congress been more supportive of Trump I believe he would have given them a heads up on what was coming and spared them the humiliation the ought to be but possibly don’t feel today.

Or perhaps this is Trumps way of signalling to these turn coats they are on their way out if he has anything to say about things.

[piasa]

The YPG is communist- but they have forced other groups to join their forces and some may have joined not because they agree with the communists or because they aren’t religious but because it was the only way to procure a share of the military aid coming from other countries and to enjoy air support. I would not be surprised if the previous administration deliberately allowed the communist group to be the sole recipient of aid so it could then insure anticommunists or tribally organized groups could not assume leadership. Whatever the case, it was a unify or die situation... so there are some decent people caught up in it at least as long as they have a common enemy, but once ISIS is gone with no common enemy they will start to part ways :

While the YPG protected the Kurdish communities it was able to extract a price: it prevented the emergence of new, rival militias and forced existing ones to cooperate with or join the YPG forces on its terms.[22] This was how the Islamist attacks enabled the YPG to unite the Syrian Kurds under its banner[23] and caused[24] it to become the de facto army of the Syrian Kurds.

[pollywog]

Because secretly, some here on FR don't believe being a good upstanding Christian man is a good thing. They have been caught up in the vulgar culture that exists today. He's too much of a boy scout for some.

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Yep!But Pence has what it takes to make a great President as far as I am concerned. Right now TRUMP is God's man.....we are writing the next chapter yet. But when that time comes, I hope and pray Pence runs!!

[jimtorr]

We will suspend the Peace Spring operation for 120 hours for the PKK/YPG to withdraw.

That is the definition of a ceasefire.

[VanShuyten]

Cocaine Mitch and those 100 yellow R/Reps will now say they were all a part of the big plan to get Erdogan to the ceasefire table.

[DoughtyOne]

But Trump telegraphed a green light?

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

[Vaden]

Pence won’t make the news now either as the media (D) will mention it as little as possible and brush it under the rug so they can impeach! impeach! impeach!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

*APPLAUSE*

Continued prayers up to get our VP and his staff back home again - safely!

[BlessedByLiberty]

I think Noxious Nancy should storm out of more meetings so the President can get things done! Without her and her misfits badgering the President - and those people who wanted to work on the problem - they were able to accomplish their goals.

She’s still paving the way for her equally Noxious Nephew Newsome to jump into the race ... but first she has to remove a president that stands in the way of the nefarious plans of a global thirst for power at any cost.

[EODGUY]

I apologize if this has already been addressed, but I bet Our President knew about the cease-fire agereement and allowed crazy nanc to make a shift-hole of herself by walking out of the meeting. He is lightyears ahead of the swamp-dwellers on the left.

[Nifty]

I saw this on a foreign new site hours ago, but since everyone questions sources, didn’t post it.

[McGruff]

Everybody smile.!

Looks like a little forced collusion.

[Sequoyah101]

The left and the 126 traitors will bitch about this too.

[MIA_eccl1212]

Captions folks??