As expected, there’s been a mad rush among the anti-Syrian opposition in Lebanon to blame the Syrian regime and its Lebanese allies for the killing of Lebanese security chief Wissam al-Hassan in yesterday’s car bombing.

Lebanon’s Daily Star quoted MP Nuhad Mashnouq as assailing “the butcher Bashar Assad and the black regime that rules Syria with the power of fire and destruction and wants to export blood and devastation to our country Lebanon.”

There’s no denying that Assad is performing the role of butcher rather well — as are some of his detractors, whose butchery was previously facilitated by none other than Wissam al-Hassan himself. Blood and devastation exports both ways. As for the indigenous manufacture of such products for domestic use, premature sectarian hysterics over the al-Hassan assassination are probably a good way to expand the market for more violence.