WASHINGTON — GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan accused the Obama administration Friday of treating Israel with “indifference bordering on contempt,” the latest in a series of jabs on the president’s foreign policy after attacks on U.S. embassies abroad this week.
“Look across that region today, and what do we see?” he said at the Values Voters Summit, an annual gathering of 2,000 social conservatives, at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington. “The slaughter of brave dissidents in Syria. Mobs storming American embassies and consulates. Iran four years closer to gaining a nuclear weapon. Israel, our best ally in the region, treated with indifference bordering on contempt by the Obama administration. Amid all these threats and dangers, what we do not see is steady, consistent American leadership.”
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and Ryan have responded to attacks on the U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya, where an ambassador and three other staffers were killed, with a critique on what they say is President Barack Obama’s weakness. Ryan said earlier this week that “adversaries … tempted to test us need to know that America is strong militarily.”
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