quagmire

And the reasons for that suggest just how densely complicated the Mideast quagmire has become.

Creator David Simon meant the line to be a reference to the quagmire of the Iraq War.

To date Obama has been determined not to talk about that, likely because to complain is to risk a corrosive quagmire.

Four years later, he has absented himself utterly from the quagmire in which nearly 90 million Egyptians find themselves.

In the 1980s the goal was to defeat the Soviets by creating a quagmire for the Red Army like Vietnam was for America.

In the centre of this quagmire and near where the road crosses the bottom is a spring of good water.

I was so near discovering the truth, and yet my inquiries had only plunged me more deeply into a quagmire of suspicion and horror.

The moor was boggy, and he crossed patches of quagmire which trembled even under his light weight.

At one spot my horse sank into a quagmire, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that I finally got it out again.

In the pelting rain of a Burmese monsoon the so-called road soon became a mere quagmire.