Pyrrhic victory

The Lebanese government has declared "the greatest national victory" in its battle against the militant group known as Fath al-Islam, but how devastating is the cost for the victor?
With a death toll of 163 Lebanese soldiers killed in battle and an uncertain number of casualties among the militants and the (mostly) Palestinian civilians living in the refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, there is hardly any room for the triumphalistic tones seen on the media and in Beirut over the last two days.
When the emphasis over the annihilation of a small pocket of "terrorism" is over, there will be time to question where the weapons of Fath al-Islam came from, who is in control of the Palestinian refugees camp in Lebanon (whose registered population amounted to at least 210,000 in 2005), and what status will the people living there (generally in despicable conditions) have in the nebulous assurances of future peace also known as "Road Map".
Maybe, there will also be time to question what would have happened among the Arab (and European) public if Israel, instead of the Lebanese government, had acted in the same way against a pocket of Palestinian militant "resistance" in Gaza or the West Bank.