Republicans Expand Foreign Policy Attacks as Bodies Return Home

The Republican presidential ticket escalated its attack on President Barack Obama’s foreign policy as the U.S. political debate focused on a topic largely absent from the campaign trail until this week.

As Obama and Vice President Joe Biden yesterday honored the return of the remains of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans slain as violence erupted in Libya, Republican challengers Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan argued that they would be better able to prevent a crisis from developing overseas.