How Walid Jumblat Is Stuck Between Syria And Hezbollah

Michael Young:

Syria and Hezbollah, and behind the party Iran, are engaged in an increasingly visible struggle for power in Lebanon […] and it is why Jumblatt is so alarmed. He’s caught in the middle, and though the Druze leader has made clear that he’s on the side of Damascus (and Saudi Arabia, which pays the bills), he also happens to be most vulnerable when facing Hezbollah, which surrounds his mountains and showed in May 2008 that it could penetrate them militarily when necessary.

And yet I feel no pity for the sage of Mukhtara. The man can wiggle his way out of anything. But he seems quite stressed of late. Have you seen the picture posted in the article?