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Will the Cedar Revolution Spill Over into Syria?
(Weekly Standard) Marc Ginsberg - It is looking more and more as though Syria's president, the Levant's callow mischief-maker-in-chief, Bashar al-Assad, has stumbled into a fatal diplomatic vortex - one that could lead to the implosion of the last Baathist regime and the demise of a 24/7 state sponsor of terror. Yet Lebanon's liberation from Syria might increase the already sizable political influence of Hizballah and its principal patron, Iran. Hizballah opposes the creation of a pro-Western, democratic government in Lebanon, and its opposition could produce the very instability that Syria's expulsion was meant to prevent.