Shias take bloody revenge for attack on shrine

Iraq was pushed closer to all-out civil war yesterday after the destruction of the dome of one of Shia Islam’s four holiest shrines sent tens of thousands into the streets and set off a wave of revenge attacks on Sunni mosques.

This raises a question in the Chief’s mind: if a rattlesnake and a scorpion are fighting in a path, do you pick a side and intervene?
Hmmmm. Seriously, we have no option but to tough it out at least for now, but the Chief thinks the most stable arrangement would be to partition Iraq into Kurdish, Sunni, and Shiite states, thereby at least partially correcting the egregiousl errors of the post WW-I map drawers.