美國副總統候選人對陣經濟中東議題大綱

U.S. Vice Presdient Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan disagreed early and often on foreign and economic policy during a feisty, interruption-filled debate in (the state of ) Kentucky Thursday.

From the outset of the 90-minute nationally televised debate, both candidates engaged in animated back-and-forth exchanges.

Looking to regain momentum following President Barack Obama's poor debate performance last week, Vice President Biden launched an aggressive defense of White House policies. He called on Representative Ryan and other Republican lawmakers to "get out of the way" and let the Obama administration fix the slow economy.

But Ryan countered that after nearly four years, President Obama and Congressional Democrats bear full responsibility for an economy that he said has left 15 percent of the country living in poverty.

The candidates also opposed each other's foreign policy views, with Biden declaring that U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan in 2014 and Ryan saying that such an announcement amounts to weakness.

On Syria, Biden praised the Obama administration's careful work with America's allies in pressuring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down.

Ryan accused the Obama administration of inaction on Syria, saying it has allowed tens of thousands to die in the conflict despite mounting international pressure to act.

On Libya, Ryan slammed the White House for not providing enough security in Benghazi, where an attack last month killed the U.S. ambassador. He said the administration was too slow in recognizing that it was a terrorist attack.

Biden called the attack against the U.S. ambassador "a tragedy," promising that whatever "mistakes" were made "will not be made again."美國副總統拜登和共和黨副總統候選人、衆議員保羅.瑞安星期四在肯塔基州舉行了一場火藥味十足、經常打斷對方的話的辯論。他們相互批評對方的經濟與外交政策。

在全國播放爲時90分鐘的辯論中，兩位副總統候選人從一開始就展開了脣槍舌劍的對決。

爲了重獲奧巴馬總統上週辯論中表現不佳而失去的勢頭，副總統拜登爲白宮政策展開激烈辯護。美國副總統拜登呼籲衆議員瑞安和其他共和黨議員“靠邊站”，讓奧巴馬政府修復增長緩慢的經濟。

但瑞安反駁說，在近4年之後，奧巴馬總統和國會民主黨人要爲經濟負完全責任，他說，美國的經濟讓15%的人民生活在貧困中。

兩位副總統候選人還批評對方的外交政策。拜登宣佈美國軍隊將在2014年撤離阿富汗，而瑞安說，這樣的宣佈等同於軟弱。

在敘利亞問題上，拜登讚揚奧巴馬政府爲迫使敘利亞總統阿薩德下臺與盟國進行的精心策劃。

瑞安則譴責奧巴馬政府在敘利亞問題上不作爲。他說，這導致成千上萬的人在衝突中死亡，儘管要求採取行動的國際壓力日益增大。

在利比亞問題上瑞安批評白宮沒有在班加西提供足夠的安全保障。美國大使上個月在班加西的一次襲擊中被殺。瑞安說，奧巴馬政府承認這是一起恐怖襲擊的做法來得太慢。

拜登把上個月美國駐利比亞大使受致命攻擊事件稱作是“悲劇”，他保證說，“再也不會犯”任何可能犯下的“錯誤”。