After Catch 22, what number fits London bombers and Baghdad ‘liberators’

JOSEPH HELLER’S epic war novel, Catch 22, has one seemingly crazy scenario in which the Germans offer to pay the Americans to bomb a US airbase.

After Catch 22, what number fits London bombers and Baghdad ‘liberators’
Mon, 25 Jul, 2005 - 01:00

It saved the Germans the trouble and the Yanks got paid for what the other side would have done anyway.

Whoever said war had to be fair? It’s a bloody, barbarous business whose ultimate aim is to kill efficiently. Why should it have to make sense?

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