There is an understandable fatigue of this endless and senseless conflict.
Fiction writers from my region often become the interpreters of this senseless conflict to the rest of the world.
The singer was STING, and the sentiment had to do with blind faith and senseless conflict, the bleaker side of the human condition.
It ought to be instructive, because the Soviet experience ("an increasingly senseless conflict") closely mirrors our own — a lightly contested invasion later thwarted by a homegrown resistance and the "Afghan tradition of shifting allegiances".
Hochschild writes of the incalculable losses and the bravery of those who opposed the senseless conflict, not about the effects of Wilson's foreign policy, yet Hitchens can't resist the historically dubious conjecture that without American troops, the Allies and the Germans would "almost certainly" have reached an armistice, thus sparing us World War II.
As the nation reflects this week on the meaning of the Vietnam War 25 years after the fall of Saigon, a few fateful words of Lyndon Johnson's tumble across the decades to remind us that a senseless conflict might have been avoided.
This sacred time helps us to realize again that too many people around the world suffer and will continue suffering from senseless conflict and violence.
Children will no longer have to grow up learning and praying not to have one of their parents or brothers or sisters kidnapped or killed in a senseless inner conflict.
After all, you are faced with the reality of life in its most desperate forms, corruption, neglected and disenfranchised populations, conflict, senseless killing and mayhem, irrational behaviours, starvation, disease and death to name just a few.
