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Friday, April 04, 2003
posted by gbarto at 10:11 AM:
In shock. Even as I was returning from the post below, I saw this headline:U.S. Journalist Killed in Iraq
Atlantic, National Journal editor Michael Kelly dies in vehicle accident
I haven't felt so bad since Scott Shuger's diving accident. It seems to me strange that I cannot look forward, now, to another of his delightfully skewering commentaries. I'm just afraid it's my fault: Though I always read him in the Post and often would pull up anything linked from the Atlantic, or wherever else he happened to write, it was not until two days ago that I purchased, for the first time, an issue of the Atlantic under his editorship. Ironically, the opening piece was his commentary on the "bravery," the faux courage of all the poets and prosists (?) who were making such a big deal of standing against the war from the safety of America. His mocking tone clearly showed what he thought of people who thought it was any great shakes to do what our founding fathers had made it safe for us to do over 200 years ago.
Michael Kelly, on the other hand, went to Iraq to see. And now, while the courageous Hollywood elite sip cocktails and congratulate one another, he is gone. RIP.
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