Le Monde, which has your typical patronizing coverage of Lebanon, with your typical French nostalgia for colonial times, grudgingly admits this: "Mobilisation "sans précédent" de l'opposition libanaise." But notice that in the lead article the opposition is always identified as "pro-Syrian." I never knew that `Awn's forces are pro-Syrian. So Le Monde thinks that hundreds of thousands took to the streets because they want to support Syria? How dumb is that?