Or do we go on playing a pointless blame game, creating a climate that discourages our diplomats, U.S. military advisory teams and intelligence officers from taking necessary risks -- and relies even more on fortifying our embassies.
Making matters worse, international donors, sickened by a pointless war, are not in a generous mood.
It is pointless for a modern president to plead that some things, such as the business cycle, are beyond his control.
At the moment, the use of hybrid seeds produced from inbred strains means that it is pointless for a farmer to replant any seeds from his harvest.
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They couldn't find a news line, and thought it was pointless holding such a gathering without one.
He said the pressure he used to feel to make her look good amid her high-school friends has now boomeranged: These days, she would be irritated if he bought her a pointless trinket rather than devoting the money to the budget of a household project like redoing the den.
Reviled and adored in approximately equal measure, The Path was either a pointless and sexually predatory perversion of the action-adventure genre or a must-play expanding of the emotional and narrative possibilities of gaming.
Like Mr Clinton, he began his term with a pointless and damaging row about homosexuality: although in his case, it was about alleged gay-bashing by a prospective European commissioner, not about gays in the military.
End the crony capitalism and the lobbying efforts become a pointless waste of money.
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The reason we know that the questioners are incompetent reporters is that this is a pointless question.
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Christian Dailly and his team-mates had paid the price for a pointless foul.
Their lives are lost, whether as a gift, laid down at the feet of their friends, or a pointless discard of precious life...
At the end of the movie, Xavier goes back to Paris, where, a few years later, his life has become a pointless mess.
Like the well-meaning patrons in a pointless line, the perpetual bombardment of bait-and-switch headlines and ads promising cures, shortcuts, and answers can be tempting.
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Global financial imbalances are at a 40-year high, equity multiples worldwide are lower than their 20-year averages and saving cash is a pointless exercise.
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This Soviet-American pledge to hold back from missile-interception systems is either a cornerstone of diplomacy or a pointless cold-war relic, depending on where you stand.
Most Westerners, unschooled in its pleasures, consider it a pointless delicacy.
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He dismissed the debate about an educational system largely in its death throes by the time he was born as "pointless" and a "chain around the party's neck".
Yesterday, just hours after the Senate voted 96-0 to confirm Martha Johnson as the Administrator of the GSA after a pointless 9-month delay, we learned that Sen.
If you look at the world that way, gun control must seem a pointless diversion from the real problem: not guns, but one particular group of gun owners.
Chief executive John Armitt said the union had failed to fully inform its members of the facts and the offers made and called it "a pointless and unnecessary dispute".
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Atletico will be without striker Sergio Aguero for the first leg against Liverpool after the striker picked up a pointless yellow card for time wasting as he was substituted in the 94th minute.
Battered by inflation, unemployment, chronic fuel shortages and their country's involvement in a pointless war in Congo, Zimbabweans are increasingly turning away from their president's party, which must face an election before August.
Like the city's other prestigious projects - the ballpark, a sports stadium and hotels - what once must have seemed like smart regeneration turned out to be a pointless burden as the recession hit home.
In short, this is a pointless directive.
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We swerve through both sides of the conflict, as one soldier falls we then follow his killer until that man dies as well, and so on and so forth in what is ultimately a pointless dance of kill and be killed.
Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences at Boston University, wrote in the New York Times that the ban was "pointless" from a public health perspective and could, in fact, increase the risk of passive smoking by creating "smoke-filled areas" near park entrances.
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