Your morning global affairs speed-read

Now Yemen? Protesters encircled the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa and climbed the gate on Thursday. [Wall Street Journal]

The New York Times has the inside story on Romney's decision to go on the attack.

And Foreign Policy gets the scoop on the Cairo embassy statement that set Romney off.

Urging caution on Iran: More than 30 admirals, generals, former diplomats and bipartisan government officials have come together on a report, due out at 9 a.m. today, that weighs the costs and benefits of U.S. military action in Iran and recommends it only as a last resort.

Rogers said he had seen no evidence that attacks in Egypt and Libya were coordinated. 

Sen. John McCain on Thursday criticized President Obama for a “feckless foreign policy” in the Middle East.

Television footage showed hundreds gathered around the Embassy in Sanaa, with dozens seeking to scale fences around the perimeter.

Obama said the U.S. and Libya must work together to find those behind the attack on the U.S. consulate.

Lawmakers believe the attack may have been coordinated by al Qaeda in retaliation for the U.S. killing a terrorist leader.

President Obama and Mitt Romney traded barbs in the wake of violence in Libya. 

Two U.S. Navy destroyers are steaming their way toward the Libyan coast in the latest move by the White House and Pentagon to bolster American security forces in the country. 

He compared it to a judge telling a rape victim "you asked for it because of the way you dressed."