While the world awaits a potential Western military strike on Syria, the following question is haunting the Lebanese and other people of the Arab Levant in their sleep: How will a strike, if it were to occur, affect their future and that of their children?
The answer of course depends on the strike’s targets, scope and success. Here success is not only measured by how well military objectives are reached while causing the least amount of damage, but by how well the strike aids in reaching a lasting compromise and stability. It is known that the main motive or rationale for the strike is to punish the Bashar al-Assad regime for using chemical weapons and to prevent future breaches of the standing international covenant against their use that has been in place for decades.
