Word: senselessly
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...porcelain cup." There is nothing beautiful about his portrayal of Hassan's hooded fate, Executed, 2004, with its horrific abstraction of beseeching hands and horned feet. But then, Gittoes suggests, war can't be reduced to a single image or soundbite; it is, by its very nature, cacophonous and senseless...
...Charles Reis, the U.S. ambassador, said the embassy neither suspected nor had been warned of a pending attack. "We can't speculate who's behind this," Reis told reporters. "Still, [we] treat it as a very serious attack. There can be no justification for such a senseless act of violence...
...that Iwo Jima would eventually fall to the United States and that he and his soldiers would all perish. So he worked for the end of the war, so it did not spread to the Japanese islands, and so the Americans would not have to fight any longer this senseless war. All he was thinking was how he could make the Americans want to finish the war as soon as possible...
...poet like Owen leading trench charges in World War I seems no more senseless than paratroopers leading humvee convoys in Iraq. But as we look backward at our lost 3,000, it's worth hoping one more time that the ending stanza for the paratroopers today will be better than Owen's. He was killed in action trying to take a canal from German defenses, just one week before the Armistice ended the war for good. He never saw his verse published in a book. War can make poets and war can kill them...
...That sort of piety is, naturally, lost on both sides, for whom the zeroes in a round number like 3,000 are instead perfect little mirrors to reflect their own hot opinions of the war in Iraq. Anti-war activists loudly mourn the senseless loss of life. Passing 3,000 is a prime opportunity to plumb the depths of their own angers about how the war was planned, sold, and executed. Hawks mourn the fact that America has lost its grit. After all, they point out, 3,000 dead is still less than half the annual toll in the worst...