The Spreading Stain

Violence that started with the so-called Arab Spring has now fully engulfed Syria and become sectarian in nature with the Assad clan and their Alawite brethren now aligned with the Shia of Syria and now backed to the hilt by Shia Iran and aided by both Iranian and Hezbollah thugs. The trouble now seems to be seeping into Lebanon, a nation that such a short time ago was riven by her own civil war. A bombing on Friday in Beirut killed eight including a Lebanese general who had been an open critic of Syria's dictator and was probably orchestrated by if not actually perpetrated by confederates of the Syrian despot Assad. The Arab Spring made an already dangerous region even more unstable.