1.   But he has no doubt that the United States waged a futile war.

2.   Kris Pleimann is on the front lines in the futile war to lighten it.

3.   Forty years after a futile war to keep Algeria as a French state, military and police officials are now apologizing for torture used against suspected Arab terrorists.

4.   Hundreds have defected and joined the government army in recent years as neither side appears capable of winning a futile war.

5.   Like the United States three decades ago, Israel is embroiled in a futile war that pits its modern army against a small band of highly motivated guerrillas.

6.   Nothing but the fog and the night -- and his memories of that earlier, futile war.