Chicken soup

Roger Simon, in an evocatively titled post, comments on cartoonist Tom Tomorrow’s recent depiction of warbloggers as chickenhawks, which implied they should either sign-up or shut-up. It's a hot topic; the wideranging discussion that follows Roger’s post involves over a hundred comments.

Citizen (formerly Lieutenant) Smash also took issue with Tomorrow in an exchange of e-mails he published Tuesday. Today, Smash comments on the “rhetorical firestorm” that ensued.

Mr Yesterday provides a cartoonist's response to Tomorrow's views.

Elsewhere, Dean Esmay talks about what it means to be a warblogger and why he thinks it’s important.

And, on a related issue, Rob Lyman, guesting at Winds of Change, wrote yesterday on the moral duty that Americans owe their country. I don’t like the sound of “Tribal Patriotism”, and I reason from different premises, but I agree that an American's first duty is to their fellow citizens.

It’s a thought provoking piece and Armed Liberal follows up the discussion with a strong post on patriotism and liberal values.