Fox News Channel correspondent Mike Tobin has been doing some amazing reporting from the middle of the war zone in Northern Israel, most recently getting up close and personal with a rocket attack, and people are noticing. But here's one thing that hasn't been pointed out yet. The rocket attack footage of Tobin made me think of one of my best friends, a Marine officer who led combat troops overseas for years, who says: "No plan survives first contact with the enemy." But of course, Marines do their job anyway, and create another plan on the fly. That's what makes Tobin, and other war correspondents like him, so outstanding. Like the Marines, they expect the fog of war, and take into account the unpredictable, unknowable nature of war, and they roll with it anyway. So God bless Mike Tobin and his colleagues and keep them safe, because they know reporting from a war zone is like making first contact with the enemy...but they do it anyway. Outstanding.
