What Now?

Abstract

In tribute to those journalists who died or were injured during the war, the British Journalism Review reprints the last piece written for his magazine by the editor-at-large of The Atlantic. He was killed in Iraq on 3 April 2003. "I spent the last days of the first Gulf War's phony peace in Baghdad," wrote Kelly, "and I am spending the last days of this one's in Kuwait, soon to take part in the experiment of 'embedding', as the jargon has it, some 500 journalists with the U.S. military for the duration of what is generally expected to be a short, exceedingly one-sided conflict. On the whole, I'd say, the phoniness quotient is down this time. We are spared, at least, much of the death-and-destruction-and-quagmire talk that preceded the last conflict here."