So You Want to Understand This Mess?

There's an excellent article by Michael Young (the opinion editor of The Daily Star, an English-language newspaper published in Beirut, and a contributing editor at Reason magazine) in the NY Times - linked below.

Although it's on the long-ish side, I highly recommend reading it. He provides excellent analysis and re-cap of what Lebanon's gone through in the last few years that led to this current mess... and why it might lead to a potential future mess too...

Hezbollah's Other War
By Michael Young