Jumat, 19 Oktober 2012

Biden and Ryan are Engaged in a War of Words on Foreign Policy

The U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden, and the candidate for the office of the Republican Party, Paul Ryan, have engaged Thursday in a battle of words in his first and final debate ahead of the presidential elections on November 6 for the economy and foreign policy of the Obama administration.

The biggest verbal confrontation occurred in foreign policy. Ryan accused Obama of displaying a posture "weak" to the Iranian nuclear program. "When I took office, Iran had nuclear material to build a bomb, now has enough for five. Four years closer to getting nuclear weapons," he argued.

It has also warned that the Democratic administration will not conduct a preemptive strike against the Persian country's nuclear facilities. "Although the government is now saying that the military option is on the table, sounds implausible," he considered.

For his part, Biden said that "Iran has no nuclear weapon right now" and stressed that is thanks to the determination of Obama, who has managed to impose "the most severe penalties in history," the Persian country. "Do you think that if we had left this to a Republican Congress would have gotten the support of Russia and China and all of our allies?" He questioned.

To this, the Democrat added that if the Islamic Republic fails to achieve sufficient enriched uranium to manufacture nuclear weapons "the White House will know," stressing that the U.S. government then could deal "a serious blow" to Iran.

Both have also discussed the assault of a militia group the U.S. consulate in the city of Benghazi, located in eastern Libya, which resulted in the death of the country's U.S. ambassador in Tripoli, Christopher Stevens, two former members of the elite forces and a computer expert.

The Republican candidate has criticized the Government has given confusing information on this incident. "The president took him two weeks to find out and recognize that it was a terrorist attack," he complained. "We call things by their name," he promised.

Ryan also criticized poor security measures. "Our ambassador in Paris has a group of marines protecting him. Should not we have had a group of marines protecting the consul in Benghazi, where we know that there are cells of Al Qaeda?" Raised.

In response, the vice president has promised to "get to the bottom of the matter" and "take us where it takes us" to "tell the American people never to make the same mistakes." "I can assure you that we will find those responsible and bring them to justice," he added.

Biden took the opportunity to criticize the Republican candidate for the White House, Mitt Romney, to give a talk on Libya, shortly after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. "That was not very presidential," he said, making a comparison with the attitude of the former governor in last week's confrontation with Obama.

Economically

In economic news, Ryan has repeated the arguments of Romney. "We're going in the wrong direction," he asserted, noting that the United States is growing at 1.3 percent, "which is less than the previous year and above", and that the level of employment in September was less than the August and July. "Of course, this does not seem an economic recovery," he argued.

In response, Biden has made a commitment to the American people "will not rest until theirs can promise that everything will go well," stressing that the Obama presidential project "is aimed at the middle class."

In this regard has attacked the Republican position. "When the economic crisis began, we went to the rescue of the middle class and help them refinance their mortgages to avoid losing their homes. Romney Say what? 'No, let mortgages hit bottom," he remembered.

Tense debate

The confrontation between Biden and Ryan has been characterized as much more intense than the one led by his 'number one', Obama and Romney, respectively, thus meeting the expectations of the American people in the debate between vice presidential candidates.

Biden has shown an aggressive, coming to describe as "nonsense" many of the claims made by his opponent, laughing at your questions and answers and interrupting him several times.

Ryan, meanwhile, has kept a lower profile, but also despised his interlocutor to show half smile as Vice President outlined his arguments.

Example of this war of words has been the debate over video that disqualifies Romney Democratic voters, half of Americans, accusing them of presenting themselves as victims of society for not paying taxes.

On this question, Ryan noted that "a person prone to making mistakes should understand that sometimes the words do not always go the right way." To which Biden answered: "I always say what I mean."

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