Sometimes, a single bullet—or a single drone—is all it takes to burn the bridges of dialogue! That is exactly what happened following the brazen attack on the Iraqi Intelligence headquarters. The Prime Minister labeled the act as "cowardly," effectively throwing any chances of negotiating with armed factions out the window. There were mediations and proposed truces on the horizon to spare Baghdad the horrors of war, but this strike broke the rules of the game. With the factions' deadline expiring and dead silence from the US Embassy, diplomatic options seem to have vanished. The arena is now open to all possibilities, with whispers of a "national emergency government" starting to echo.