Vice presidential debate opens with Biden and Ryan clashing over Libya
DANVILLE, Ky. – Vice-President Joe Biden and the man who wants his job, Republican Paul Ryan, clashed over policy in Libya in the opening minutes of the vice-presidential debate.
Moderater Martha Raddatz, who is senior foreign affairs correspondent for ABC News, opened the debate Thursday night by asking if the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya was the result of a massive intelligence failure. The U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed in the attack.
Biden called the deaths a “tragedy,” and vowed that “we will bring to justice the men who did this.”
Ryan responded by saying that “what we’re watching on our TVs is the unraveling of the Obama foreign policy.”
Said Biden, “That’s a bunch of malarkey.”
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