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National Journal: The Long War

  • March 7, 2015
  • The Progressive Policy Institute

PPI President Will Marshall was quoted in an article in National Journal regarding the continued fight against Islamic extremism:

“Obama has been imprisoned by the Iraq and Afghanistan experience,” maintains Will Marshall, president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a centrist Democratic group. “You have to pick your fights carefully … but just staying out of a conflict is no guarantee that you’re going to escape worse consequences.” Critics like Marshall believe that the United States has been forced to pursue greater military intervention against ISIS now partly because it failed to support a moderate Syrian opposition earlier.

Read the piece in its entirety at National Journal

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