A windy day of weblinks

I've been gone most of the day today; over at Leadership Institute in Arlington for some Public Speaking training, so I'm blogging as I catch up on the day. Lots of good articles at Townhall - check out The Hammer, Chuck Colson, Olie North, Cal Thomas, and Rich Tucker (who just happens to work in the office to my right at The Heritage Foundation).

Victor David Hanson makes an argument for Iraq as a Moral War...

Over at The Society of Serpents and Doves, there is an interesting analysis. Take a peek then consider my response to them:

"While I understand what is trying to be advocated by the previous comment made, no one is about to advocate raising taxes or the draft. The President is certainly against bringing back the draft (as he has said time and time again) and I would imagine he learned a hard lesson in 1992 at the hands of his father's Presidential defeat as an incumbent because of his broken promise on taxes.

How would you want the country to look? Bush's big push after 9/11 is that he encouraged the country to go back to business as it had been on 9/10, to not be live in fear of what happened that fateful day. I see that thread still running through things, besides in s society of "what you want when you want it" and the media pushing that really hard through marketing and advertising do you expect our society to do with less? I think not. It's a nice idealistic sentiment, but hardly a reality, and one that I don't see happening unless things take a turn for the "much worse".

However, in answer to Smith's question I would maintain that I do care about what is going on, because I try and keep up with it through different blogs and such. As far as Hero's from the war, I'd go with the Duce Four a.k.a the Punishers. Embed journalist Michael Yon, who is in Iraq under the banner of the Weekly Standard, has been with them in Iraq and recently attended The Punisher's Ball alongside Bruce Willis They both appeared on Rita Cosby's show a few weeks ago to discuss Michael's coverage of the Duce Four's heroics. Willis is actually considering doing a movie based on the Duce Four and Michael's reporting."

One week till Aslan is on the move...