**With the Fourth of July just past, The Phanatic Magazine's Jared Trexler looks at a new America -- one consumed by a war fought miles and miles away. How does sport play a part, and when can be stop taking a "game" so seriously. This is the first of a two-part series concluding Friday**
By Jared Trexler
The Phanatic Magazine
A game you cannot win.
Seems like a lose, lose proposition only entered because of overwhelming pride and patriotism. For no right competitor would risk far more than a check in the loss column for a seat in war's stadium.
An arena without boundaries. A once cavernous, barren landscape now past capacity with tanks, bombs, bullets.
This isn't sports. The analogies are hellish, insulting. Especially coming from athletes who compare "games" to "battles" and coaches who draw philosophical comparisons to the strategy of war.
There are no winners in Iraq -- unless you count the insurgents with no fear of death, only a purpose for destruction. The longer the blood flows, the tougher it is to imagine hope of finality...
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