in fact, if anything, since it does show weakness, as i think governor romney correctly pointed out it will only encourage them to do more, the harder they push, the more we apologize and they ll push more. eric: talk about apologizing, here s a shocking analysis from the new york times, this past week about the president s foreign policy: what makes egypt s uncertain course so vexing for the white house is that mr. obama, more than any other foreign leader, has sided again and again with the arab street in cairo. even when it meant going expressly against the wishes of traditional allies, including the egyptian military, the persian gulf states and israel. i mean, what do you make of that, when the president of the united states, sides with the, quote, arab street? some would say he s promoting democracy and those are the forces of democracy. what is your view of that? usually forces of democracy don t express themselves by engaging in seizing embassies, conducting terrorist att
reporter: the protesters in yemen set out to destroy the american embassy in sanaa to punish an insult against islam. protesters climbed the perimeter fence, undeterred by yemeni security forces who tried to keep them back with water cannons. the crowds pushed forward and managed to get inside the embassy parking lot, smashing windows, torching vehicles, using a fork lift to do even more damage. this time, the u.s. embassy was prepared. staff was moved to a safe location. no one was hurt. in cairo, another embassy under siege, but egyptian security forces are finally taking decisive action. riot police battled demonstrators all day. more than 200 were overcome by tear gas. as the air burned with the stuff, protesters told me their goal was to get to the cairo embassy and take vengeance.
pulling the strings that led to their election, that perception was fabricated on conservative american blogs and talk radio shows. and even in one cobweby corner of the republican caucus in the united states house of representatives. protests continued today in cairo, yemen and iran. some clerics in pakistan called for protests in pakistan tomorrow. youtube will restrict access to its site in egypt and in libya. youtube s been blocked indefinitely in afghanistan. of course, youtube does not have the power to make people unsee what they have already watched a. and nobody has the power to force a civilized conversation between the angry mobs who give them meaning. the lead blog at the new york times has been doing great coverage of this store, monitoring local social media in places where the protests have been happening. the lead blog at the new york times yesterday rightfully flagged this tweet as a
been imposed on a region for a long time and they need education, they need more free thinking and they need to break out of that conspiracy theory. richard, in terms of the scenes behind you and what we ve been able to see tonight in terms of footage from cairo, what can you tell us about the intensity of what s going on there and the change in the response from the egyptian authorities that you described in that report that we just aired that. reporter: when the protest first broke out here, and it happened quickly and demonstrators rushed up to the embassy, there really wasn t much of a response at all from egyptian authorities. protesters climbed over the embassy walls. they pulled down the flag. they put up a new flag. they climbed back over the wall. they wrote graffiti on the outside of the walls. that all takes time. the egyptian authorities just sauntered up and eventually chased them away. we saw a decisive change happening pretty much yesterday
large protests tomorrow in pakistan. some of the most aggressive protests today came in yemen. nbc s richard engel reports on that. reporter: the protesters in yemen set out to destroy the american embassy in sanaa to punish an insult against islam. protesters climbed the perimeter fence, undeterred by yemeni security forces who tried to keep them back with water cannons. the crowds pushed forward and managed to get inside the embassy parking lot, smashing windows, torching vehicles, using a fork lift to do even more damage. this time, the u.s. embassy was prepared. staff was moved to a safe location. no one was hurt. in cairo, another embassy under siege, but egyptian security forces are finally taking decisive action. riot police battled