There is little evident bitterness over a costly and futile war.

It is a futile war that no one can win.

The futile, meaningless war that lasted for more than a thousand years ends.

So they can kill each other in endless futile civil wars instead?

No one can say when the seemingly futile war to save the euro will end, even if we might guess how.

The long and futile war bankrupted one of the most powerful empires in the world.

Flood and the dead soldiers are just another skirmish in a long, futile war.

Because it might persuade us that we are paying a totally unacceptable price for this futile war?

She was too drained to carry on this impossible, futile war any longer.

They perhaps would be the "lucky ones" in this senseless and futile war.