Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180416:15:34:00
Antagonizing our nato ally, turkey, bordering syria on the north. turkey views the kurds as a threat. the turks sent in troops to seize turkish-controlledter -- controlled territory. this is the complexity of syria. it is not a random country in which there is a civil war. this is why a lot of people describe syria as being a proxy war. it's got israel. it's got turkey. it's got the united states. it's got russia. >> which is why it is -- to simply make the argument, syria is not our country, not our backyard, let's get out -- >> it is a shallow argument because it is a complicated place that ...