In the verge of civil war

The assassination of Christian State Minister Pierre Gemayel, an outspoken critic of Syrian involvement in Lebanon points the fingers of blame to Damascus. However, pure political and diplomatic logic makes it difficult to see Bashar Assad's regime behind the assassination. Syria has just scored historical political points by renewing full diplomatic relations with Iraq. Moreover, Syria was in the verge of a political success, falling Fuad Siniora's government, which is key to prevent Damascus to be prosecuted in Harriri murder trial.

This is the fifth political assassination in the past year in lamentable Lebanon. This puzzled people who try so hardly to remain under the same flag, but failed to become a nation, gives us a glimpse of how extremely difficult will be to hold together an ethnically divided Iraq.