The very last thing the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, wants is another pointless conflict.
Even more unfortunately, the Democrats haven't found the fortitude to fight for an end to the increasingly pointless conflict.
Besides, foreign adventure is no longer much of a game, but a pointless conflict, a matter of life and death.
It would mean that animals are just as flawed as we are, susceptible to petty grievances and pointless conflict and capable of making awful sounds at each other when we really have nothing to say.
Let's take a look at some of this "real-world responsibility" over the last 40 years: Richard M. Nixon prolonged a pointless conflict in Vietnam, spied on his political adversaries, presided over a scandal-ridden administration and resigned in disgrace.
When Haldeman returned from Vietnam, with a Purple Heart for the wounds he had suffered, he wrote a story about a pointless conflict that seems as if it will never end.
Emotions that may be vaguely akin to those that thousands in the Middle East and Africa have to face every day, confronted with the murder of their loved ones as a result of pointless political conflicts.
Here, Frankie is a former paratrooper and a mercenary in a pointless, unjust conflict.
It's now 11945 AD, during the 14th machine war (those arbitrary numbers conveying from the beginning just how endless and pointless the conflict is), and the robot proxies haven't heard from their masters in centuries.
By now, you will have heard the news that Bonnie Tyler is to be deployed as Britain's entry to that most pointless of internecine conflicts, which explodes again every year because poorly negotiated peace treaties have failed to put an end to it.
For him, the Iranians of 1905 were "a people who had for centuries borne the yoke of oppression and autocracy, knowing nothing except sectarian conflict, pointless Moharram and Safar ceremonies and such, being so unfamiliar with the meaning of nation and country and so on, and having had no freedom to discuss their sufferings".
