The most meaningless conflict

**Templar Knight** · 06-03-2005, 20:03

The Crimean War - An interesting war nonetheless, my fave too, It was however pointless and led Europe on the long road to WW1.

**mercian billman** · 06-03-2005, 23:10

I'll nominate the Falklands war as being a pointless waste of life.

The war was fought because the Argentinian Junta wanted to rally political support around them, and ended up getting 655 Argentinians and 236 Brits killed. Not as pointless as WW1, but still resulted in unescesary (sp) loss of life over a few small islands inhabited by less than 2000 people.

**Marquis of Roland** · 06-04-2005, 05:18

I thought the point of the Crimean War was to test out all those nifty weapons that were invented over the prior 30 years or so, no?

Actually, the most pointless war is still going on right now, in Iraq. I still don't know why Bush went to war with IRAQ. If anything, Saddam held the insurgents down, taking him out was tantamount to opening a pandora's box. No weapons of mass destruction were found, something the UN weapons inspectors have been trying to tell the U.S. for about a decade already. I can't believe Bush got reelected (I voted for Kerry, damnit

), it really scares me that the average American these days are so stupid and apathetic that large reason for why people voted for Bush was because "we know how bad he is, we don't know how much worse Kerry could be". Unless it be those ultranationalistic "red states" in which people say that he is the president and the president can do no wrong (which is why Americans are so compatible to live in a fascist dictatorship, we hardly vote to influence governmental decisions anyway).

**IrishMike** · 06-04-2005, 05:55

I knew it would get political, only a matter of time. ^

**Marquis of Roland** · 06-04-2005, 20:04

woops, my bad

**Kagemusha** · 06-04-2005, 20:29

Originally Posted by Templar Knight

The Crimean War - An interesting war nonetheless, my fave too, It was however pointless and led Europe on the long road to WW1.

There was one significant outcome from Crimean War.Florence Nightingale=Red Cross.

**Templar Knight** · 06-04-2005, 20:31

Originally Posted by kagemusha

There was one significant outcome from Crimean War.Florence Nightingale=Red Cross.

yes, the war did raise awareness of the suffering of the soldiers and the lack of good health care.

**Big_John** · 06-04-2005, 20:47

this has to be one of the more pointless ones: 19-years atop the siachen glacier.

http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/as...achen.kashmir/

**Kagemusha** · 06-04-2005, 20:59

Originally Posted by Big_John

this has to be one of the more pointless ones: 19-years atop the siachen glacier.

http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/as...achen.kashmir/

I agree the whole stand of in Kashmir.Seems to me as an waist both of time and resources.One could think that UN could do something to that problem,but nobody seems to care

**Tribesman** · 06-05-2005, 00:27

There was one significant outcome from Crimean War.Florence Nightingale=Red Cross.
Henry Dunant=Red Cross . Franco-Austrian war .

Mary Seacole did more work for the soldiers in the Crimea than Florence Nightingale , but the newspapers gave Nightingale more publicity as she was an upstanding white British woman , not a talented dedicated mixed race colonial .