内战又持续了六年，然后是棘手的政治后果：叙利亚介入并(在20年后)撤出，黎巴嫩人决定自己的命运，美国则只施加幕后影响。
The civil war continued for another six years, followed by a bumpy political aftermath: Syrian intervention and expulsion (two decades later), as the Lebanese defined their own fate with the US exercising only background influence.