PPI President Will Marshall was quoted in “World of Hurt” written by Ronald Brownstein for the National Journal. In this article Brownstein contrasts the way in which the past two presidents have approached foreign policy: Bush being too aggressive, and Obama being too passive. Brownstein argues that the 2016 presidential candidates are going to have to fall somewhere in between Bush and Obama in order to have a successful election bid. Marshall was quoted on this issue:
The iron fist failed. Then the velvet glove failed. That’s undoubtedly a simplistic verdict on the foreign policy records of the past two presidents, George W. (“iron fist”) Bush and Barack (“velvet glove”) Obama. But it now appears inevitable that the 2016 foreign policy debate will unfold against a widespread sense that America’s world position eroded under both Bush’s go-it-alone assertiveness and Obama’s deliberative multilateralism. “There will be a groping on both sides toward a new synthesis,” says Will Marshall, president of the centrist Progressive Policy Institute.
Read the rest of the article at National Journal.
