Worse, Siniora backed down "on the suggestion of the army commander." Lebanon's army cannot and will not fight Hezbollah. When your army tells you bluntly to give the other side what they want, it is no longer your army.
The 2005 "cedar revolution," which ended decades of Syrian military occupation, now stands revealed as merely a change of masters. Iran's Syrian client/partner was replaced by Iran's Hezbollah stooges, who also have the support of Lebanon's Shiites.
The 2006 fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, mostly in southern Lebanon, demonstrated that the government had little sway over Hezbollah's strongholds. And now all of Lebanon, it seems, can be a Hezbollah stronghold, whenever that faction's masters flex their muscles. |