Online Event: Lebanon's Challenges: A Conversation with U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Friday, November 13 from 10:00-11:00 a.m. EDT for a conversation with Dorothy Shea, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon. J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director of the Global Health Policy Center, and Jon B. Alterman, Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director of the CSIS Middle East Program, will engage with the Ambassador on the evolving humanitarian, health, economic, and political crises in Lebanon. They will cover the aftermath of the August 4 Beirut explosion and evolution of U.S. policy since.

This event is co-hosted by the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security, the CSIS Humanitarian Agenda, and the CSIS Middle East Program.

This event is made possible by the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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[jorgemario]

Somebody is getting rich in Lebanon, and that is not hezbolla, so why you don't go after these people?

[RCh.]

4:57 this is a joke, right? 😂 great skid 🏆 no better way to hook than a laughing audience 👏
◻️ Yes, Lebanon is a heavily dollarized economy (1), and there's no sense of urgency in the current government (2). Some in that country actually want to see the economy break down, see, because they're trying to de-dollarize their economy. 🧠
◻️ And honestly so far, it seems they're getting their way sadly.
◻️ Distance learning is an interesting global challenge. A lifelong teacher I think it's about time. ☑️

No bailout is a step in the right direction; no free lunch as long as you don't end up throwing them right into Xi's lap 🐉
52:41 that's so Lebanese 🤣 whoever put Ms. Shea in this position has personality insight 👍

The Lebanese geopolitical dilemma is really having no other options but to balance Syria and Israel, which is proving ever harder the deeper Assad goes in bed with the Ayatollah's. Best practical way out is to join an Eastern Mediterranean coalition– albeit one already has Israel, and the other seems to be a Frankenstein of a body with the likes of Tr and Pk.. I don't like this latter and frankly want nothing to do with it 🤢
◻️ That being said, you know money always talks the loudest. Just make sure it's not you know who's.
◻️ It's doable, though; I remain optimistic so far. 💯