There is a real risk that it will become entangled as a partisan actor in Lebanese domestic politics. Nor should it seek to play into the regional agendas of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan – hardly paragons of democracy – which are anxious to confront what they portray as a menacing “arc” of Shi’a Muslim power extending from Iran to Lebanon via Syria, and in Iraq.
西方应该步步谨慎。因为它面临着在黎巴嫩国内政治中扮演一个派系角色的真正风险。它同样也不应该企图介入沙特阿拉伯、埃及和约旦的地区议程—这些国家无论如何也不是民主的典范—它们都急于应付被描画成一条邪恶“弧线”的，从伊朗经叙利亚以及从伊拉克延伸到黎巴嫩的什叶派穆斯林影响力。