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Source: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/hezbollah-enters-syrian-civil-war.html
Hizbullah Widens the Syrian War
(New Yorker) Dexter Filkins - The most serious effects of Hizbullah's stepped-up intervention in the Syrian war will be felt in Lebanon, where peace depends on each of the country's main sects refraining from trying to grab too much power at the expense of the others. Hizbullah's intervention in Syria - essentially, a Shiite army crossing the border to kill Sunnis - represents a flagrant violation of Lebanon's fragile sectarian pact. It's not difficult to imagine Lebanon slipping into a new civil war of its own.