Lebanon Slips Into Syria Quagmire
Nassif Hitti writes that Lebanon cannot distance itself from the Syria war.
The village of Al-Kassir in Syria is becoming a symbol of the emerging Lebanese war. The proximity of Al-Kassir to the Lebanese borders and its geographic importance — located on the axis extending from Damascus to the Syrian littoral — adds a strategic component to this new offshore Lebanese proxy war.
What was once a timid, but not so discreet, backing of allies in Syria — be they the regime or the opposition — is becoming an open war.
