Word: senselessness
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...situation in Iraq has improved in the last year, with casualty counts dropping off significantly since 2007’s bloody spring. Any improvement comes despite the news last September that agents of Blackwater USA, the private security contractor, were responsible for the senseless deaths of at least 14 innocent Iraqi civilians. The mercenaries responsible have enjoyed impunity for their deadly carelessness; nearly nine months have passed since the Iraqi government demanded that Blackwater depart, and the firm remains—enduring only a tasteful corporate redesign. In April, their contract was renewed for another year...
...artistic phenomenon is even worse: There isn’t even any aesthetic pleasure any more. All that these increasingly macabre displays provoke is the temporary fury of the average gent and the viewer’s cheap satisfaction that at least there is someone in the world more senseless, base, and ugly than...
...temptation to follow Saddam’s forces back to Baghdad, with his Defense Secretary, Dick Cheney, predicting a “quagmire.” Gingrich pared down the unwieldy federal government and reformed the broken welfare system, and William Buckley called for an end to the senseless war on drugs...
...Baron] is an ambiguous hero, who at the end sees war in a negative light. It shows how we look at war today. The tragic thing about Von Richthofen is that he was the poster hero of the Kaiserreich [the German empire] who, deep down, knows that war is senseless." With reporting by Stephanie Kirchner and Laura Laabs/Berlin
...sacrosanct tenets of a healthy liberal democracy. Yet while the average American considers his bedroom a sancto sanctorum, he doesn’t hesitate to deny the public servant the same privilege. If we reserved as much moral indignation for serious issues—like our engagement in a senseless and costly war—as we do for our politicians’ sexual peccadilloes, things might not be going so badly...