This indicates to me, they have no idea what has happened on the ground in the middle east and worldwide and this multiple uprising was unseen and scaring the living daylights out of the administration.
The landscape is changing fast under their feet and they know it and tells me, they are not sure that communications are yet secure which is frankly the scariest part.
They trained the protestors to overthrow the Egyptian government like good little communist community organizers and how to re-establish a new, “democratic” government.
But they had no clue or plan for the US when the s - they tossed around like baboons, hit the fan.
How their gaming would effect the US is an after thought in their global social engineering games.
You are absolutely correct. The Obama administration from Obama on down had and has no clue what was going on in the Middle East. Now, Obama might have known, because he was probably in it up to his teeth trying to do damage to the USA. Hillary Clinton, the witch she is, loves the USA, very much unlike her America hating boss, POTUS Obama!!!
rumor has it that US foreign policy mechanism is in shambles, they are admitting to some US reporters off the cuff that they have NO idea what is happening, nor NO idea how to manage it, nor NO idea how far it is going. In other words, they know as much as you or I.
If they have concern that communications are not secure, that indicates concern that China or Russia are involved on the side of the insurrections.
Ditto your interpretation.
To outsiders, this cannot possibly inspire confidence.