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On Monday, President Obama nominated former Nebraska GOP senator Chuck Hagel to replace Leon Panetta as the next secretary of defense.
Nearly two months after the terrorist assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, it continues to ripple across American politics, though the constantly shifting timelines provided by the administration and the new questions raised by Republicans have not dramatically reshaped the presidential race.
A day after campaigning with Mitt Romney, Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, sought to bolster his foreign policy resume with a vigorous defense of a muscular American foreign policy Wednesday, criticizing what he said was the increasingly prominent isolationist strain in his own party.
