ICG: "Lebanon must find a middle ground between recklessly seeking Hezbollah's forcible disarmament & allowing the unfettered use of its weapons..."

Read the full Crisis Group report here and as sobering, "Keep It Together", here in the Economist.

"...In many respects, Lebanon reflects the fissures and rivalries that have rocked the wider region. Indeed, that is just the trouble. Since the Shias of Iraq and Iran have come more boisterously to the fore in the past few years, their co-religionists in Lebanon have demanded, ever more insistently, a leading, even predominant, role in their own patch and beyond, in keeping with their fast-growing numbers (they are now Lebanon's largest single group) and in view of their past poverty and political inferiority...."