Syria's sponsorship, via the provision of money, supplies and training, of Hezbollah and numerous other terror organizations that have conducted terror attacks against the US, including the Marine barracks bombing in the 1980's, and the torture and murder of the CIA station chief in Lebanon. It's possible that we're in the process of carving out a Kurdistan out of Syria and, perhaps later, Iraq. The big question here is whether they'll get access to the sea. Perhaps by carving a chunk out of Lebanon for the Alawites.
If that was important to us, we should have elected Hillary Clinton to carry on the George W. Bush legacy.
It’s strange how Lebanon was set aside as a safe haven for Christians, just as the Palestinian Mandate was meant to be a safe haven for Jews.
Christians are currently 35 % of the population. The French oversaw the creation of Lebanon. Syria does not really recognize Lebanon as a separate country. Lebanon was one of the most peaceful countries in the Middle East at one time. Then 1970 the PLO was pushed out of Jordan after trying to overthrow King Hussein and declare Palestine as being all of Jordan and Israel.
Many Christians have had to flee Lebanon. Muslims don’t necessarily coexist with anyone, let alone their own factions (Sunni and Shiite).
So we now have Hezbollah dictating policy in Lebanon. Hezbollah is allied with Iranian Shiite troops in Syria, and the Russians are allied with all of them.
Don’t forget that when the Arab armies were defeated in 1967 massive amounts of Russian arms were discovered by Israel. The arms had been prepositioned for a future assault upon Israel.