To businessmen like Fadil, Baghdad is a maze of pointless demands and delays.
A second simple step would be to stop interrupting workers with all sorts of pointless demands such as long emails, bureaucratic forms and compulsory happiness initiatives.
It's reasonable to ask Mitt Romney to public repudiate a noxious idea like "birtherism," but it's wearying and pointless to demand that he specifically repudiate every paranoiac and/or cynic who floats the idea during the campaign.
The House Republicans' pointless and heartless demands for more austerity are holding back economic growth.
However, panicked over money-laundering and terror, the UK government has threatened sanctions against banks and financial institutions, who take refuge in making demands for pointless documentation.
If Germany really wants to save the euro, it should let the European Central Bank do what's necessary to rescue the debtor nations — and it should do so without demanding more pointless pain.
By 2016, as blue-collar wages continued to stagnate and inequality to worsen, the base of the Republican party had lost its appetite for pointless culture crusades: they demanded something real.
As the Wall Street Journal repeatedly stated as it tried to save the life of its reporter, these demands were pointless because neither Pearl nor the Dow Jones company had the power to change the policies of the Bush administration.
Organizations everywhere put up full-spectrum firewalls, draft byzantine and Kafkaesque security policies, send delegates to security conferences to talk very seriously in hushed voices about APTs, and make endless pointless and/or disastrously counterproductive demands in the name of security theatre, such as forcing people to use impossible-to-remember passwords.
Mr Clegg will use his speech to the party tomorrow to call on the Government to cut short its "pointless" £12.5bn VAT cut and demand the money be spent on directly creating about 94,000 jobs to help Britain move to a low-carbon economy.
