[TomGuy]

Obama could likely have recently issued orders to military now serving at the embassy to be unarmed with the purpose of facilitating such an event we are now witnessing."

Per other threads recently, the Marines guarding the Embassy were disarmed because the female Ambassador did not like them being armed. It was a local directive, NOT a directive from the WH or State Department.

[nicmarlo]

So, there was a change in Ambassadors in recent months? (The guy who called in was specifically referring to the embassy he just had served (within the past few months) where now they are unarmed, but he was when there.