A Snapshot Of The Middle Eastern Sectarian Powder Keg
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
10/20/2012
Yesterday’s massive car bomb in Lebanon, which killed and wounded dozens including the country’s police intelligence chief and has thus been dubbed as the most “high-profile assassination in seven years”, confirmed once again that when it comes to regional powder kegs, the middle east is second to none, and is the 21st century equivalent of Eastern Europe. While nobody has claimed responsibility yet for yesterday’s brazen attack (although the “agenda-less” media is once again insinuating it is the doing of Syria’s leader Bashar al-Assad) one thing is certain: provocations of this nature will continue indefinitely until they escalate into something much more lethal. The reason: the melting pot melange of different sects in Syria and Lebanon, which co-exist in perfectly mutual hatred despite, or rather because of, the artificial political borders imposed between the two countries provides a terrific backdrop to which merely add a spark and watch everything go up in flames. Which also means that those seeking to provoke further military escalation in the region, now that attempts to stoke a conflict between Syria and Turkey have so far failed, will likely look to Lebanon as a new conduit for escalation. . Because remember: as David Rosenberg pointed out yesterday, in a time of record partiasniship, political bickering and lack of consensus, “it may end up taking some sort of a crisis, in the end, to galvanize the two parties to work towards a resolution to the fiscal morass.” And that is precisely what the endgame here is: the intention to unify a hopelessly split congress (and senate) behind the patriotic banner of war. It is only a matter of time (but certainly in time to address the Fiscal Cliff).
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