o in and "terminate, with extreme prejudice," Kurtz's "command." Kurtz has become an obstacle to the army's main goal of winning the war. They want to kill him because "it seems they didn't dig what he had to tell them." He recognizes the absurdity of it all, that "the war was being run by a bunch of four star clowns who were gonna end up giving the whole circus away." ("APN") The reality of it is, however, that Kurtz is actually achieving the goal of the army more so than the army is itself. He is "fighting the war on his own terms, and winning it," while the army doesn't even know who the enemy is. They are trying to kill the one man that is winning their war, th!
             e one man who clearly sees it all. The army talks of this ultimate moral goal, although there really is no such thing. Willard alludes to this when he says, "Trouble is, I've been back there and I knew that it just didn't exist anymore." ("Apocalypse Now") The Army completely
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