Tony Snow Blog

I see that Tony Snow has a blog. It is even through the same service as me. I wish I could hear his radio show (though I cannot say that I have every attempted to find it). I see him often on Fox, and he seems to have it together. He isn't quite as partisan as Hannity and Limbaugh (not that there is anything wrong with that), and he actually takes a moral stand on issues, unlike O'Reilly. The only radio host I get the chance to hear is Jay Sevren, up here in MA. I usually enjoy listening to him, though I totally disagree with his views on Iraq. He feels we are not using the extent of our military force to oust the terrorists. He feels we should be dropping bombs on towns like Fallujah and Mosul. He considers Iraq to be a complete mess, a "Black Hawk Down", as he puts it. I have never heard him speak of any town other than, well, Fallujah. I don't know where he gets his news. He certainly never talks about the hundreds of good things that are being accomplished there. Neither he nor I are military analysts, yet he continually analyzes the situation over there. He feels, and rightly so, that our troops are doing a great job, and that it is the government that is screwing things up. I am not sure how he can make the distinction. Our troops are supposed to do what their government asks them to do. That is there job. However, no reasonalbe person could expect a soldier to obey an order that is morally wrong. We expect our troops at times to be a conscience objector (and, BTW, suffer whatever consequences comes from it). If the situation over there is so wrong, our troops would have to be complicity in the evil, or else to ignorant to know the difference. Either way, it does not look good for them. All of the troops are in the military by choice. Many enlisted so that they could fight in Iraq. Did they choose jump aboard a train wreck? Or did they join what they felt was a just cause? I would heartily agree that the military and the government controlling that military makes mistakes. I just don't think Iraq is a mistake. I don't think we have made as many mistakes as Jay insinuates. And I don't think it is possible to completely sever the "war from the warrior".