I don't think I'm being merely snide when I say that he is both malicious and incompetent; and that his malice is fortunately limited by his incompetence, but his incompetence is unfortunately amplified by his malice.
So its kind of a lose-lose for us.
Its pretty bad when the Saudis have to intervene to protect us from ourselves. And the O turns out to be too crazy even for Riyadh.