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Wojtek Ogrodowczyk  Ten Questions About the Crisis in Syria
1.  (MP): Will the Syria civil war develop into a regional
sectarian conflict in the future, as Sunni countries react
against the Hezbollah intervention? How great is the possibility
that this local war will spill over to neighbours like Lebanon
or Jordan?   The Syrian conflict has already spilled over to its
neighbors.  How could it not, when there are approximately 1.6
million registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey,
Iraq, and Egypt and when military operations have already spread
beyond Syria’s borders into Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, and Israel? 
But to view what is taking place in the region purely in
sectarian terms is misleading.   To be sure, the fact that the
Syrian conflict took on a sectarian dimension (although it did
not start that way) has had serious effects on Lebanon, whose
political system depends on a fragile balance among Shi‘is,
Sunnis, and Christians.  As