Bahraini officials earlier this month told their US counterparts that the protests could gain unstoppable momentum if they continued to be sanctioned by the US, a development that would imperil US interests.
The laughable argument offered up by members of the political class to defend the indefensible is that Huawei's close ties to the Chinese government mean that American use of its phones and equipment imperil us stateside because we could be spied upon.
Such closings imperil us all.
On the Today programme he spoke of Rwanda and moved on to Syria, and how our failure to act on Assad would imperil us for years.
The human angle has been a common note in the anniversary coverage, with the Nation reflecting on the way disaster movies have mediated our response to real-life tragedies, and the Washington Post examining the way our best social instincts may imperil us in a dangerous situation.
As we've seen from Mumbai and 9/11, it's a debate we need to resolve with some urgency because the margin of error is not as flexible as it was, and the downside, at its worst, can imperil us all.
