Paul Ryan Blames Obama In Rise of Islamic State
- 5 years ago
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan blamed the Obama administration Tuesday for contributing to the circumstances that led to the swift ascent of the Islamic State, a militant group that purportedly beheaded a second American journalist in two weeks.
Ryan had been taking questions from a panel of reporters during a Milwaukee luncheon when he was asked to respond to a news report that journalist Steven Sotloff had been beheaded. The congressman asked the several hundred people in the audience to observe a moment of silence, and then suggested that the Islamic State's rise to power coincided with a series of Obama missteps.
Full story: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/paul-ryan-blames-obama-rise-islamic-state-25222245
Ryan had been taking questions from a panel of reporters during a Milwaukee luncheon when he was asked to respond to a news report that journalist Steven Sotloff had been beheaded. The congressman asked the several hundred people in the audience to observe a moment of silence, and then suggested that the Islamic State's rise to power coincided with a series of Obama missteps.
Full story: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/paul-ryan-blames-obama-rise-islamic-state-25222245