Syria: Assad only picks on the weak

President Bashar al-Assad knows he has no military power to take over Israel. As this site has noted before, Hezbollah's "victory" (if we can call the situation in which Lebanon's economy is now in a victory) could only be achieved in a limited guerilla war meant to annoy Israel and nothing more. But when it comes to Lebanon, there Assad playing it as a big-shot because he can. How else could you explain his objection to International observers on the LEBANESE side of the Syrian-Lebanese borders?

If President Assad truly supported his wards about Liberating Lebanon he would know this decision is totally up to the Lebanese government and it only. He also knows that Lebanon would do now anything it can to prevent another war like this including an international force that would serve to try and stop Hezbollah (as if it is possible without a stringer mandate) and Assad cannot have it. He needs them to get him Sheba farms and reinstate Syria in Lebanon following the cedar revolution.

And so the only way he could help Hezbollah is by preventing an international force on the border he uses to resupply Hezbollah. That is why Syria claimed that doing so would be tauntomaunt to a declaration of war by Lebanon on Syria. Strangely enough, an international force on the Syrian-Israeli border is no declaration of war, could it be because he could win easily over Lebanon? And this is what leads me to say that President Assad only picks on those who are weaker then him... just like a bully.