The cartoon highlights one of the aspects of the dominant discourse on the Syrian crisis and those that deal with it as a military crisis and a crisis of belligerent parties, and it is a discourse that undoubtedly works in the Lebanese context to distract people and enable the current system to reproduce itself. However, the Syrian crisis and the Arab crisis in general, forebodes of additional blights that may someday hit Lebanon, and hit the people in their daily and urban lives, and unmask the deceit of the dominant discourse, albeit a bit too late unfortunately.