is they are not going to have to kill millions of people and millions of people aren t going to have to kill them. the president calling this a great day for civilization. but the u.s. just essentially surroundered a region of syria to turkey. and it s all because of his call with erdogan a week and a half ago which enabled the incursion to happen in the first place. george conway calling out the irony tweeting the house burned down, but, hey, the arsonist gets to brag that he put out the fire. let s bring in mark and former chief of staff to vice presidents joe biden and al gore. nbc news senior international correspondent keir simmons. keir, let s start with you. you have spent a lot of time in that region. you were in ankara earlier as the vice president and the president of erdogan met. reporter: john, you know, yesterday i said that this