"..It's a stretch to refer to all factions of March 14 as "moderates." The US & Europe support March 14, but so does Saudi Arabia, .."

EURASIA, via FP/Passort, here

"......Second, it's a stretch to refer to all factions of the March 14 coalition as "moderates." The United States and Europe support March 14, but so does Saudi Arabia, hardly a beacon of either democracy or moderation. Some Lebanese would never describe the Phalange or Lebanese Forces (key Christian March 14 parties) as moderates. 

[Saudi security men walk Saturday June 6, 2009, past posters of the movie, "Menahi," the first film to be publicly screened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in more than three decades. Women were banned from the show because organizers could not get permission for them to attend. ]

Third, the election results were somewhat surprising, but they were hardly shocking. March 14 won the seats everyone knew they would win. Hizbullah and Amal did the same. The list headed by Sulieman Frangieh, a Christian political boss in Syria's pocket, swept its district. Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement carried several Christian areas where he was a lock. That left a few hotly contested (largely Christian) districts. That's where Aoun needed to push the opposition past the finish line -- and where the elections were lost...."