High_Gravity
Belligerent Drunk
obama thanked the Egyptian president for not sending the Egyptian military to protect the embassy. That's what happened.
What are the Egyptian Military supposed to do? ain't no Egyptian Soldier going to kill another Egyptian to protect Americans, they wouldn't even do that for Mubarak.
The obligation of host nations is to defend foreign embassies. If you look at it objectively it makes sense. If host nations did not have this obligation, then embassies would be protected by the military of that foreign country. That's not an embassy it's an occupation. Imagine in this country. We will not protect foreign embassies. There is a protest at the Russian Embassy over the imprisonment of Pussy Riot. The Russian army protecting the Embassy opens fire on the protesting Americans. It doesn't end well does it?
To the average Egyptian on the ground all those agreements with host nations mean less than a fart in the wind, technically yes the Egyptian Military was supposed to put down the protests but we all saw what they did, which was basically nothing.