It predicts a need for itself, and then doesn't quite fulfill that need. Schwartz righly bemoans the dearth of reporting out of Iraq, but his own report dwells only on the worst conditions and worst locations. It is easy and somewhat justified for supporters of the war to criticize the report for not including positive things, such as, I don't know, schools being built or women being liberated. To expect the media to keep up a drumbeat of reports from Iraq when nothing much is changing seems like expecting too much. We need to be reminded in the face of "conservative" optimism that we have created a hostile state where only a hostile regime once was, and that our blundering has made a wider war more likely, and not less. This Schwartz does with alacrity, but with an intensity that makes him seem like an alarmist in a hospital. Anyone who visits there knows people are sick. We are waiting to see who the chief of medicine is before we can do much of anything to start the healing.