Chicago Tribune | The tipping point

The bombing of the al-Askari shrine is likely to be the tipping point for Iraq.

We will remember it as the moment when Iraq was doomed to be a failed state riven by sectarian violence, if not civil war. Or we will remember it as the moment when Iraq proved it could rise above the greatest outrage, could resist the natural impulse to meet violence with greater violence, could show its resilience against those who sought to destroy it by exploiting ethnic and religious tensions.

It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings. So, if you're waiting breathlessly for total destruction and chaos, breath into a paper bag and try not to pass out.

Chicago Tribune | The tipping point