EDITORIALS

Editorial: Lebanon on the Brink

EDITORIAL OF THE SUN | May 9, 2008

The right way to look at the latest outbreak of violence in Lebanon is as a thrust by Iran to solidify its staging ground for the next attack on Israel. We don’t suggest that Lebanon in and of itself doesn’t matter; it does. But the events taking place in the past two days, aside from marking the worst internal violence in Lebanon since the civil war that was levied between 1975 and 1990, is much more than sectarian strife. It is political and strategic, the result of Iran’s determination to use Hezbollah to serve its regional ambitions.