Getting a handle on Lebanon

This is something I have wondered about since all the news started rolling in about the presumed Syrian assassination of the former PM of Lebanon: is this seriously an entire people rising up against their masters? Or have the media been a little over-wrought in their reporting?

Kevin Drum suggests that it is the latter... and while the answer doesn't necessarily suprise me, the numbers do. 500k people at a pro-Syrian rally? No clear picture on who did the assassination? This is a much different storyline than what we have been seeing of late.

But there is a good indicator of that which a few people have mentioned: the administration has been relucant to call it their victory (i.e. part of a Middle East domino effect)

You know you gotta take a second look when they take a pass on something like this...