Bloodless Coup

The Road Ahead in Lebanon

The Christian Science Monitor has this article which makes some predictions about what will happen now that the final round of elections in Lebanon has come to an end. They persist in viewing politics there in pro-Syrian and anti-Syrian terms, though they themselves note that more and more, especially now that Syrian troops are gone, politics there is returning to the same old sectarian divisions that have dominated the country's politics for decades. Hopefully those don't get too violent (what led to Syria being invited into the country in the first place, of course), but there does seem to be an upswing in political violence this month now that two prominent anti-Syrian voices have been permanently silenced by car bombs in the last three weeks. The most recent, a former leader of the Lebanese Communist Party, was killed in Beirut today.