"meaningless war" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to describe a war that serves no purpose or does not have any real beneficial outcome. For example, you could say, "In the past, many countries have fought meaningless wars over territory."
Still, he despaired: "It's a meaningless war.
Today, breaking news belongs to those who deliver electronically, so reportorial wiles become the chief weapons in this meaningless war.
I'm talking about the fact that we're choosing sides (and defending them with zealous rage) in an entirely meaningless war.
But we are so confused as to who we are fighting and why we are fighting them that we attacked the wrong country under the umbrella of the meaningless "war on terror".
"Once Upon a Time" (8 p.m. EST, ABC) The fantasy drama is finally set to shed a little more light on the enigmatic Rumplestiltskin this week, as we see the imp attempting to track down the ultimate power source in order to help his son avert a meaningless war in the fairytale world that was -- that doesn't sound much like Rumple, does it?
America, meanwhile, always learns a lesson: Vietnam taught us never to fight another meaningless war; 9/11 taught us not to be so darned superficial; and the financial crisis taught us not to treat the global economy like a giant, multi-trillion-dollar game of roulette.
They abandoned the needs of their people and engaged in meaningless wars that claimed thousands of lives.
Because they are less preoccupied with fighting meaningless wars and they are willing to improve the status of their children.
Otherwise, thousands of Americans could have died fighting in another meaningless Mideast war.
- two meaningless bungled wars whose price measures in thousands of deaths and trillions of dollars borrowed from China, to pay for torturing, tapping and renditioning us right out of our shining city on a hill.
"You were the first martyr of a meaningless and stupid war wanted by your own country," wrote one person.
