quagmired

Thanks for helping us get quagmired in Iraq, Colin.

Powell calls Palin a 'fascinating figure' 2009

Seven years later, the United States is quagmired in a violent insurgency in Afghanistan, while Pakistan, having surrendered part of its territory to Islamist militant control under a "peace deal", is on the verge of becoming a failed state.

Ali A. Rizvi: A Peek at America's Possible Future Pakistan Policy 2009

Over here, meanwhile, the Pentagon is still maintaining the world's largest military force -- but we have failed to defeat al-Qaeda, we are quagmired in Afghanistan, and all of our nuclear weapons have done little to prevent North Korea from entering the nuclear club.

John Feffer: The End of Unilateralism? 2009

The Bush Regime has quagmired America into a sixth year of war in Afghanistan and Iraq with no end in sight.

The Agenda Behind the Hoax; What the Iraq War is About 2008

For instance, even with the U.S. spread thin and quagmired in Iraq and Afghanistan, the CheneyBush regime seems anxious to provoke a major quarrel with a resurgent Russia in a relatively minor regional dispute in the Caucasus.

Violating Someone's "Sphere of Influence" Can Be Dangerous 2008

A nice template for films like Chinatown (which gets the job done much better), it gets quagmired in the middle, and not in a good old-fashioned noir (The Big Sleep) sort of way.

Row Three » Row Three Narcissism: Movies We Watched - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions 2008

The United States quagmired right now in a war in Iraq.

CNN Transcript May 18, 2008 2008

Boris Yeltsin, 76 The beefy, sybaritic Siberian left a mixed legacy — the communist boss who finally smashed the Party, yet left an unstable Russia, prey for oligarchs, quagmired in Chechnya.

Famous In Life, Noted In Passing 2007

Last Throes = We are mired/quagmired in an unwinnable situation

Firedoglake » Green Zone Talk 2006

One can only assume that Sen. Inhofe is talking about some other Iraq, and not the one that borders Iran and that we’re currently quagmired in.

Think Progress » “Nothing short of a miracle.” 2006