Lebanon - a way out?

I've been in something of a state of despair over the readily collapsing stability of the middle east. Iran and Syria have been using proxy forces in Southern Lebanon to destabilize the region and deflect attention from Syria's tyranny and Iran's nuclear development conflict with the west.

But knowing why it is happening does not help - it feels like an abyss, things are falling off the edge into it, and it can't be stopped. Innocent people will suffer, and nobody can help them or save them.

But does it need to be so? In the NYT today, the first column I've seen that actually proposes a way out - from the opinion editor of Lebanon's Daily Star.

Middle East II: Israel's invasion, Syria's war - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune