http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/24/world/middleeast/24lebanon.html?ex=1322024400&en=0880a5c2af228030&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Demonstrators in the crowd shouted for the resignation of the Lebanese president, Émile Lahoud, who is allied with Syria. They cursed the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and spat on pictures of Gen. Michel Aoun, a Christian who has aligned his party with Hezbollah.

It shouldn't. If you'd been following happenings in the middle east you'd find that there are plenty of anti-Syrian Lebanese. They are the minority in the government, which is representational of the people who voted for them. The middle east isn't one homogenous people that believe the same things. There's a lot of moderates in many/most of the Middle East. But moderates rarely get heard over the din everyone else is making, same as in the US.

Syrian troops left Lebanon at the request of the Lebanese a couple of years ago. Not only that, but there still has to be fair amount of antipathy to Syria or else the Lebanese would be asking for those troops to come back after the Israeli invasion.

Maybe a bit premature in the matter.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2482819,00.html