The Ultimate Catch-22Â As I grade a sess of sopho more than essays discussing the common echoes of an assortment of WWI poems and Erich Maria Remarques impudent, All softly on the Western Front, I am abruptly confronted with the soldiers conflict in Kosovo. On March 23, 1999, peace duologue having failed, NATO authorized air strikes against the forces of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. Yugoslavia promptly declared a state of emergency ? its number one since World warfare II ? and the world was at war again.
It seemed almost handle a glorified computer game to me at first ? high tech beyond belief with terms such(prenominal) as smart bomb, and surgical strike, and satellite imagery littering the news, entirely Im beginning to start anxious as I try out about hundreds of more war planes en route and dress the enounce American ground troops assaulting my ears with greater frequency.
As the sophomores well know, war is hell, especially to those people who hand over go through its utter terror first hand. Joseph Hellers masterful WWII novel, Catch-22, supplies for me the functional phrase by which I view the Kosovo Crisis.
 As explained in the novel of the same name, Catch-22 specified that a concern for ones own guard in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr (a bomber pilot) was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didnt, besides if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didnt have to; but if he didnt want to he was sane and had toÂ...
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