Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa once said of Damascus’ close-but-ambivalent ties to Iran: “You don’t always have to love the woman you are sleeping with.”
Syria is certainly not the only country in the region where the perfect is the enemy of the good. In Lebanon, too, the formation of a new 24-member “cabinet of national interest” is proof positive of the continuing value of the hesitant political cohabitation of Lebanon’s rivals.
