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GOP ticket sharpens attack on Obama foreign policy
KEN THOMAS, Associated Press, NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press
Updated 10:29 a.m., Friday, September 14, 2012
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney embraces women wearing traditional Vietnamese "ao dai" dresses as he campaigns at Van Dyck Park in Fairfax, Va., Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Photo: Charles Dharapak / AP
The White House has denied thatNetanyahu requested time
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FontNEW YORK (AP) — The Republican presidential ticket sharpened and broadened its attacks on President Barack Obama's foreign policy record Friday, with Mitt Romney blasting Obama for declining to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Romney's running mate accusing the president of failing to lead in a time of global crisis.
"American foreign policy needs moral clarity and firmness of purpose," GOP vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan said in remarks prepared for delivery Friday at the conservative Values Voter Summit in Washington.
Romney has struggled to make the case against the sitting commander in chief as angry anti-American protests in the Arab world turned violent this week. After an initial statement mischaracterized the tumultuous events, Romney has taken a mournful tone about the loss of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya and instead is making a broader argument that Obama has a pattern of sending the wrong message to the world.
His running mate was even more pointed in speech excerpts released by the campaign.
"Look across that region today, and what do we see?" Ryan asked. "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."
Romney, appearing at a $4 million breakfast fundraiser at a New York hotel, called the lack of a meeting with Netanyahu "an extraordinary confusing and troubling decision."
"This is our closest ally and best friend in the Middle East," Romney said. "It stands between a nuclear Iran in some respects and a region that would have more stability without a nuclear Iran. And yet when the prime minister of Israel says, 'I'm going to be in New York. Can we meet?' And the president says, 'No, I'm too busy,' I can't imagine that circumstance. I don't know what the president is trying to send to the world in terms of a message but it does send a message."
The White House has denied that Netanyahu requested time
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