How Do You Say 'Quagmire' in Farsi? -- Thanassis Cambanis, Foreign Policy
Why Syria Could Turn Out To Be Iran's Vietnam -- not America's.
ARSAL, Lebanon — For more than a year, leaders in Lebanon have anxiously eyed the murderous civil war in Syria, wondering whether it would leap across the border and engulf the small, fractious country. And yet, it is Lebanon that now has jumped decisively into the fray, with Hezbollah's help apparently crucial to the Syrian regime's strategy and survival.
Uniformed Hezbollah fighters openly patrol the northern reaches of Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, fighting on either side of the increasingly porous border with Syria. Rocket and mortar teams target Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters a few miles away, and Lebanese Hezbollah infantry fighters crisscross the "Shiite villages" surrounding the city of Qusayr just across the border in Syria, which now forms one of the pivot points of the conflict.
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My Comment: Iran's and Hezbollah's intervention is what has probably saved the Assad regime from certain defeat this spring. But the Syrian civil war has now morphed into a sectarian conflict that is bleeding blood and treasure from all sides .... the question now is .... how long will Iran and Hezbollah be willing to fight this sectarian war, and what will the other Arab states do in propping their side in this conflict. At this moment in time, it appears that the Sunni Arabs are the ones who are blinking first.
Update: Lebanese Shiite fighters backed by Hezbollah fighting inside Syria near border -- FOX News/AP
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