A new website has been launched that is chronicling events as they actually happen in Iraq, IraqStatusReport.com. This sort of effort dovetails well with Joe Lieberman’s lament this morning before General Petraeus’ testimony that no good news is deemed acceptable out of Iraq.

Not that all is good in Iraq - no serious minded individual believes that. But the seeming unwillingness by many to recognize any progress at all in a very difficult region and context demonstrates, in my view, an exceptional lack of seriousness. The media can’t take off the Vietnam-era glasses long enough to care to get it right. This web effort is a move in the right direction.