An interesting twist to this morning's news: Fox's Molly Henneberg was on camera in Baghdad, reporting the police station blast and assassination of a Spanish military agent. Which of course, left me with a momentarily heavy heart; the loss for Iraqi families and Iraqi civil security, the persistence of forces who would see the country's liberty become a short footnote in its ugly history.

But before signing off, Henneberg qualified her less than celebratory report. "This news is sad, yes," she cautioned (I paraphrase), "but that doesn't reflect the day over here at all. People are going to work, people are going to school, markets are open. It's a normal day in Baghdad, even though these acts occurred."

That was important to include. It's far too easy - and for some media outlets, advantageous - to leave an audience with a bombing in a city that, for most minds, is condensed into a tiny dot on a foldout map. But as Henneberg reminded us, progress towards peace and stability marches on in Iraq.