Syria may now have become the main arena in a Middle East proxy war, but the threat posed to the Lebanese is no less real

Of all Arab states, little Lebanon has always been the most exposed to the influences of larger ones. Once the playground of the Arabs, it became the battleground where they prosecuted political and strategic conflicts that sometimes escalated into proxy wars. By this criterion, it should have been among the most affected by the Arab spring. Yet it was the least, mainly because it had no despot, no all-controlling authority to rise up against. It was already a democracy of sorts, the only Arab one in the region.

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