Romney Camp Denies Acting Rashly

Response to Obama's comments on attack of consulate in Benghazi has been criticised

Caught up in the middle of a roiling and deadly foreign policy crisis, Mitt Romney's campaign denies it acted rashly in condemning the Obama administration's reaction to fatal assaults against U.S. diplomats in Libya and a violent raid against the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.

Senior Romney advisers, who declined to speak on the record, said on Wednesday the protests at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, where U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was killed along with three others, demanded a comment from the GOP nominee. The larger point of Romney's statement, which faulted the administration for initially siding with protesters in Cairo, was that Obama is misreading the violent underbelly of the Arab Spring and jeopardizing U.S. interests in the region.