by Mikael Thalen | Infowars.com | September 12, 2014

Administration’s incompetence on full display

A White House press release detailing a Wednesday evening conference call may exemplify the Obama administration’s expertise on foreign policy.

The press release, which provides a transcript for comments given by several White House senior officials, breaks down key points laid out in President Obama’s Sept. 10 speech on ISIS.

One specific senior official, whose name was not provided, told conference call listeners that Saudi Arabia shared an “extensive” border with Syria when attempting to describe the alleged regional threat of ISIS.

“ISIL has been I think a galvanizing threat around the Sunni partners in the region.  They view it as an existential threat to them,” he said. “Saudi Arabia has an extensive border with Syria.  The Jordanians are experiencing a destabilizing impact of over a million refugees from the Syrian conflict, and are profoundly concerned that ISIL, who has stated that their ambitions are not confined to Iraq and Syria, but rather to expand to the broader region.”

The blunder is a microcosm of the Obama administration’s failure throughout the middle east, specifically seen most recently in Libya and Syria.

The President announced his plan this week to fight ISIS jihadists in Iraq and Syria by arming the “moderate” Syrian rebels, despite the fact that the alleged rebels have openly aligned themselves with the Islamic State.