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Presidential Debate Touches On Foreign Policy

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, October 17th, 2012

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President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney sparred briefly over foreign policy last night during their second-to-last debate before the Nov. 6 election. Romney criticized Obama’s foreign policy and the president slammed his challenger’s plans for boosting defense spending. Yet the presidential hopefuls did not delve deeply into Pentagon-budgeting matters such as the so-called sequestration cuts to defense spending and Romney’s proposed military buildup during the 90-minute debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. The town-hall style event was…

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