
he presidential campaigns and their allies began the week with aggressive attacks on the candidates records ahead of the first presidential debate on Wednesday.
In an opinion article published Monday in The Wall Street Journal, Mitt Romney accused President Obama of foreign policy failures, saying that the president had allowed the nations influence to atrophy by “stepping away from American allies overseas.
“Amid this upheaval, our country seems to be at the mercy of events rather than shaping them, Mr. Romney wrote. “Were not moving them in a direction that protects our people or our allies. And thats dangerous.