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The Sunni-Shia proxy war that entered Syria with the public debut of the “Syrian opposition” has been spreading to Lebanon for some time. Before it is all over Syria-Lebanon will be one whole theater of war with multiple groups involved. Everyone can thank U.S. long-term “regime change” plans against Assad, executed jointly covertly and overtly with certain Middle East “friends”, for initiating events that led to the destabilization of Syria and introduction of Sunni Islamists as “partners” with the so called “Syrian opposition”.

Prior to the public debut of the so called “Syrian opposition”, Assad represented a manageable security issue easily watched over and contained as needed.

And, in spite of the Syrian alliance of convenience with the government in Tehran, Assad was no tool of Iran and has never given up any control to Tehran. Unlike most of the Arab dictators (some call themselves kings and some call themselves emirs), the Syrian government was secular, with no state religion and everyone enjoyed freedom of religion (which irked alot of the Arab so-called “friends” of the U.S.) Under the Syrian constitution the Syrian president is not even required to be a Muslim.

Assad is surely no “good guy”, and neither is most of the leaders in the Arab Middle East with the exception of in Israel. Assad was not opposed by our so called friends in the Middle East because he is a dictator. He was opposed by many Arab and Sunni Muslim regimes BECAUSE he was not a Muslim of the Sunni fundamentalist mold. In fact, the Muslim sect that Assad is part of - the Alawites - is considered an apostate sect to many Sunni Muslims.

Regime change against Assad was like Afghanistan of the 1980s - a U.S. international security agenda ran locally by Sunni Islamists who knowingly engaged their most radical friends to provide troops and local organization for the effort.

That the whole mess would engulf Lebanon eventually was to me only a matter of time.