[Destro]

Even fewer know that the Syrians came to help the Christians over the Muslims. The Syrio-Israeli hostility obscures this. The Syrians - while Muslims - are antagonistic to Israel over Arab nationalist reasons not religious ones.

[Strategerist]

The Syrian government is run by the Alawite minority which are a weird sub-branch of Islam that are considered heretics and non-Muslims by other Muslims; a lot of Christian traditions and habits among the Alawi, actually.

Probably no country in the world has killed more Islamic fundamentalists than Syria, oddly enough..the huge massacres of Hama, etc.

[cake_crumb]

Doesn't matter which faction Syria came to "help". The faact is they never left and made Lebanon into a satellite country of Syria - Soviet style. They accepted the plea for help to serve Syria, not Lebanon, not Christians. Period.