Showdown at the Levantine Corral

http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/OPED/11-2006/Article-20061116-f0fb0c35-c0a8-10ed-01a4-77dff3ba1d17/story.html

Isn't this just more the same BS we've always seen in Lebanon?
Yeah, except now it's nuclear-powered BS and Iran is flush with oil dollars.
Brings REM to mind: "It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fiiiiiine."

Divided loyalties amonst the Lebanese still abound and nothing has really changed since Lebanon was a set of city states called Phoenecia (when these cities competed with each other by backing external powers like Persia (them again?!) or Egypt or the Hittites), or when Lebanon was in the midst of a collapsing Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century (when various Lebanese groups backed external powers like France or Prussia or Great Britain)...

So now it's Israel, Iran and the US... big whup... how unoriginal...

History tells us that the Lebanese will eat sh** for some time (while some profit handsomely from the incoming petrodollars from Iran and Saudi) and then take a short breather and move on to the next squabble.

No biggie. Really.