Check out the video of Fox News Channel's Shep Smith's outstanding field reporting from the Israel-Lebanon border yesterday. His interviews with returning Israeli soldiers on Studio B really speak to what it's like to fight in the fog of war. Some of those first voices off the line on the other side in Lebanon carried the undeniable authority of battle veterans, with the young soldiers saying things like “You don't know where to look. You don't know what to do...it's like what you see in the movies. It's actually coming true...I never saw things like that before.” One of the returning soldiers also told Shep why he’s fighting: “I fight to help my country. If I won't do it, who will? Who would protect our country? It's our country, we need to live here.” The authentic voices of those who fight is what makes war reporting like Shep's real war reporting, and not just sideline commentary.
