I'm not sure which it is, but Romney did something tonight that was either very smart or very dumb ...
This election will likely be decided by a small percentage of voters in a small number of states, and I think Romney decided to target moderate and independent voters in the hope of winning these swing states. I could be wrong but I suspect the goal was to encourage voters who are unhappy with the current state of the economy to feel comfortable voting for Romney because he is safe and won't rock the boat too much; and the United States won't be heading for a new war under Romney.
Its a gamble because it depends on voters who believe Romney is stronger on economic issues but were afraid he would be to hawkish voting for Romney even though they now (probably) see him as being very similar to Obama on foreign relations; while, at the same time, not pushing people who disagree with Obama's foreign policy away from Romney.
Depending on how this impacts polls over the next week I think I will have my answer







