The phrase "absurd conflict" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or disagreement that is unreasonable or illogical.
Example: "The debate over the new policy turned into an absurd conflict, with both sides refusing to consider any compromise."
Alternatives: "ridiculous dispute" or "foolish contention".
M.M.S. is charged with collecting royalties from Big Oil even as it regulates it — an absurd conflict right there.
The ministry of defence, which gobbles up money in prodigious amounts, not least on the absurd conflict in Afghanistan, has three ongoing capital-hungry projects: the Typhoon strike aircraft for the RAF, two replacement aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy, and the renewal of the Trident nuclear-armed submarine flotilla.
It's a complicated beast: it gives the Securities and Exchange Commission new oversight over the rating agencies; makes it easier to bring lawsuits against them; and tries to minimize the absurd conflicts of interest — starting with the fact that the rating agencies are paid by the issuers of the bonds they are rating.
Not, of course, in any real ways — the level of similarity between Macs and PCs really makes the whole conflict absurd — but in ways that are nonetheless obvious to the average user.
In Sharon's view, the idea that Israel could bring about an end to the conflict was absurd.
It is absurd to assert a "conflict" that would render a Board Member unqualified based either on ownership or a sense of urgency to repair a company that has been – by your own admission – languishing for years.
Kiev is trying to return to normalcy by telling Euromaidan to move on, but it's moves like this that drive tourists to absurd monuments of the conflict like the Mezhyhirya Residence.
Charlotte's dilemma -- the inner battle she wages daily between her sexual impulses and the flesh-denying dictates of her beliefs -- is merely a more absurd version of the conflicts besetting all the characters.
"To try and import the Middle East conflict here is absurd," he said.
In any larger view, Chomsky's view of the US as the fountainhead of human conflict is as absurd as the Bush aide's belief that America can create its own reality.
Yet the report also considers a darker scenario: "If Europe defines its identity in terms of countering U.S. power, the world is likely to return to a balance-of-power system reminiscent of the era prior to World War I with the same disastrous consequences".The idea that Europe and America might actually come into armed conflict still seems absurd.
