David Bromwich: New York Times to America: Stay the Course in Iraq
Mar 17, 2008 - On Sunday March 16, the Times Week in Review observed the fifth anniversary of
the Iraq war with two separate commemorations: an essay by John Burns (former
chief of the Times Baghdad bureau) that looks back from the devastation of 2008
to the hopes of March 2003; and a symposium on the progress of war, with short
comments by nine strategists, pundits, officials, and soldiers.
Burns wrote his…

