The phrase "absurd war" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a conflict that seems unreasonable or illogical in nature.
Example: "The ongoing conflict has been labeled an absurd war by many analysts, who argue that the reasons for fighting are unfounded."
Alternatives: "ridiculous conflict" or "foolish battle".
"It has broken the international laws of war, maintained secret prisons, and fought an absurd war against drugs".
Keeping up military pressure "is the most effective way to end this absurd war," Mr Santos declared recently.
These are small comforts in an absurd war that will mark Ivory Coast for years.
He blamed "the absurd war on drugs" for Mr. Scott-Heron's plight.
Quentin Tarantino offered his deliberately misspelled Inglourious Basterds, a violent and violently absurd war film that reshaped the facts of World War II to suit the director's cinephilia.
The United States' absurd "war on drugs" has done nothing but nullify individual rights, attract organized criminals to a black market, squander taxpayer money, drive drug use underground and create a vast government bureaucracy.
"We felt we could never be as good as our fathers and our grandfathers, who had fought in these magnificent and absurd wars and had both validation and valediction, and so we somehow had prove ourselves at street level," he says.
For one thing, so frequently do the French and Spanish feature as Jack's natural targets throughout the twenty volumes that to focus now on his American antagonists — whose quarrel with England was described by Jack himself as "this absurd, unnecessary war" — would be almost perverse.
Remember that famously absurd Vietnam War quote from an American officer talking about brutal attack on Ben Tre, "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it"?
Here's how absurd the war on drugs has gotten: firstly, an activist from Keene, New Hampshire, is facing 81 years in prison for dealing marijuana; and secondly, even though he's admitted on camera that he did sell about a pound of pot to an FBI informant, he's still fighting the case in court in hopes the jury will acquit him.
Rather, bad luck, the confluence of particular decisions and chance encounters, dithering on the part of United States officials and a series of absurd turf wars between the C.I.A. and F.B.I. all contributed to Al Qaeda's success in pulling off its nefarious plans that sunny September day.
