Not the Syrians... But

As I am watching the demonstrations and the extraordinary events unfolding in Beirut, i am thinking about the deep hole the syrians are in.
I want Lebanon to get rid of their tyranny, but logic tells me that they didn't kill Rafic al Hariri. Still...they'll pay for it... and we'll be happy about it..

Justin Raimondo argues reasonably
in ‘The Etherzone’, that what's happening in Beirut, similarly to what happened in Kiev, is an American plot to manipulate deeply held resentments of a people to push away an autocratic soviet-style regime who controls an otherwise democratically inclined country...

Similarly Muriel Mirak-Weissbach in a publication called "Executive Intelligence
Review" writes:

The assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, in Beirut on Feb. 14, was a carefully planned and executed act, geared to trigger a chain reaction of events in the region, that would conform with the long-standing policy of the neo-conservative junta running Washington.

Thomas Friedman said in the New York Times, that if the Syrians did it, it would be "political suicide"..

The Lebanese are not stupid. They know that although the Syrians have a history
of this kind of assassinations, they still regarded Hariri as an asset, not
a liability and they stood least to gain from his assassination.
Still, the Lebanese are braving the streets, the checkpoints, the threats, all
to voice their disgust with the regime, most of them secretly thinking: For
once, finally, the American interests are aligned with ours!
God Bless a free and democratic Lebanon!