“”These condemned remarks reflect complete ignorance and incompetence in understanding the reality of things in Egypt.””
Don’t feel bad. That’s our State Department where “complete ignorance and incompetence” is a requirement for a job there. It would be nice if we could have some maturity in the personnel there. We have the old fossil Kerry and the spokespersons are barely out of high school. OK - out of college but with limited knowledge of anything outside of the college atmosphere...but heck - that goes for the goon in the WH also.
Given their public appearance, it certainly seems that way. However, when I was a student at the Air War College, we had a Foreign Service Officer in my seminar. (This is common practice in all the Services' War Colleges: include people from State, the other Services, and allied Services). I was very impressed with that guy. He was intelligent and vigorously defended his views. I have sometimes wondered if he was sent to AWC to get him out of the way for a while, because he didn't seem to fit in with the overall image of the State Department.