When will centrist Democrats account for their foreign policy failures?

Democrats should not be the party of military intervention

U.S. soldiers prepare to invade Iraq in 2003.
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The war between left and center over the control of the Democratic Party continues apace. The latest salvo comes from one of the OG centrists who helped rout the New Dealers out of the party: Will Marshall, the president of the Progressive Policy Institute.

In a sympathetic profile, Paul Kane of The Washington Post describes Marshall as having founded a new think tank and PAC in order "to reimagine the party's brand in regions where Democrats have suffered deep losses." His effort to keep Sanders Democrats out of the party has gotten a lot of attention — but his absolutely odious record on foreign policy, not so much. It's long since time centrist Democrats answer for their record of belligerence and cataclysmic failure.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.