New York Times (September 21)
“The lethal detonation of hand-held pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah militants this week in Lebanon… raised questions about a gaping vulnerability in the global supply chain.” The attacks are likely to “accelerate supply chain changes,” including reshoring and nearshoring, that the pandemic catalyzed to insure “against the perils of international shipping.” Each supply chain movement and “every additional company brought into the manufacturing process represents an opportunity for those pursuing violent agendas to insinuate themselves into the works and weaponize the product.”
Tags: Attacks, Detonation, Gaping vulnerability, Hezbollah, International shipping, Lebanon, Lethal, Manufacturing process, Militants, Nearshoring, Pagers, Pandemic, Perils, Reshoring, Supply chain
Wall Street Journal (August 28)
François Hollande, the Socialist President of France, “deserves credit” for taking a hard stance against Syria and the Bashar Assad regime. Hollande “appreciates the strategic stakes in Syria. So does Iran, which is sending hundreds of soldiers and senior Revolutionary Guards commanders to Syria to shore up the Assad regime…. The mullahs know that Syria is their bridge to Hezbollah in Lebanon and their only significant partner in the Arab world, and that their ambitions in the Middle East would be much harder to fulfill without a Damascene ally.”
Tags: Bashar Assad, France, François Hollande, Hezbollah, Iran, Lebanon, Syria
