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That "god forsaken war" was both started by, and ended, white fascism in Europe. I can name you plenty of examples of "bullshit wars." The Allies' effort in WW2

• ncmncm 7y ago
  But even for all that, a huge fraction of deaths were needless. E.g. British bomber crews who died early in the war died because the hole to bail out by was too hard to get through with a parachute on. And, no one was able to detect any difference in German weapon production resulting from bombing, so arguably everybody who died in or defending a bomber died for nothing. German production of aircraft increased every month right up to the end of the war, although they ran out of pilots to fly them. Armor and infantry won that war. Fighter planes blowing up locomotives had some effect, toward the end.
• doctor_eval 7y ago
  The American war, which the OP is actually about, was arguably a fight against Japanese aggression in the Pacific, and arguably caused by a US blockade targeting oil imports to Japan. The entry of the US into the European war happened well after the rest of the allies had been fighting their hearts out for years. My point however was the killing of a person by their own government during a time of war. This guy could have gone on to do all sorts of things to support the effort. He self reported his own desertion. Killing him was sick. And you can contradict me all you like, but the whole article is about how the people that actually made the decision and had it carried out, regret it.