Why Arab revolutionary are lucky with US officials

I mean, Arab revolutionaries are really lucky to have the likes of Daniel Shapiro and Jeffrey Feltman as top officials for US Middle East policies.  Think about it.  If the US had the kind of shrewd and calculating Middle East experts of the 1950s and 1960s, they would have been able to produce so much mischiefs.  Those are just plain ignorant, their sinister Zionist impulses not withstanding.