and like many have feared/expected, it's spilling over into Lebanon now.
Lebanon is a sad story of never ending violence... Hizbullah has weapons, so do Palestinian Refugees, Syrian Refugees, Other Lebanese Political Parties... Lebanon is a war zone, never been an independent and peaceful country ever before.
Hmm, pardon?
I guess people living there could explain you a kind of difference between what happened between 1975 and 1990 there, and what happened since then.
Some violence in Lebanon? It already happened and would continue to happen here and there at times, and indeed the worse it be in Syria, the worse it could turn in Lebanon.
Something as harsh as they knew in the past?
Really, you never know, but if they wanted an actual new civil war, it's a long time it would have begun I'd say...
People aren't machines who make civil wars for the sake of matching their reputations, I suppose at least.
The news are too focused on Syria, so the echos of the Syrian Civil war in Lebanon are almost unheard internationally. The reality is that the whole country is hanging on a thread, there are Kidnappings, assassinations, bombs, high crime, visibly armed militias here and there... I don't know what is preventing Lebanon from slipping into a new civil war, but it certainly isn't "if they wanted an actual new civil war, it's a long time it would have begun", the people who carry the weapons and the civilians aren't the ones to call a civil war... I don't know who calls it, but it certainly not the common people...
