This is a pivotal moment on both sides of the Atlantic for the so-called war on drugs – a senseless battle that has been waged across the world since the 1970s.
One of the most beautiful is on a hillside outside the French town of Albert and holds the remains of some 160 British soldiers, almost all killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme – a particularly senseless battle in a particularly senseless war.
A World War II veteran who strongly opposed the Vietnam War, McGovern took up the fight for boomers who had lost brothers and friends in what they saw as a senseless battle, and feared being drafted themselves.
Your words I wanted more / This life is much too short No end in this cold war / Senseless battle.
Unfortunately, like everything else in this long and senseless battle, the bill went nowhere: Republicans unanimously blocked it, citing reasons as unjust as they were insulting.
The collapse was another legacy of the 14-year rule of Mengistu Haile Mariam, the Marxist dictator who fled to exile Tuesday, leaving an economy in ruins and an army demoralized by years of costly and senseless battle.
"War may be senseless and the battle of Jutland may have been inconclusive, but there can be no doubt that their sacrifice was not in vain".
She can come off as overprotective, unable to let go and eager for battles that seem senseless and self-defeating.
