Michel Suleiman was sworn in as Lebanon's president in the Beirut presidential palace on Sunday. The pro-Western and the pro-Hezbollah political factions of Parliament agreed on this deal, brokered by the Arab League on May 21st, and he is to put an end to a 19-month political crisis that included violence, assassinations and sectarian street battles.

Suleiman, who was Commander of the Lebanese Army until 2005, does not hold executive power, as that belongs to the prime...