Naples may have escaped from the deep quagmire it found itself in 15 years ago, but the city still has plenty of catching up to do.Perhaps its biggest problem is its reputation for violent crime and corruption.
Quick to condemn the remarks of Obama's former pastor on behalf of American umbrage, McCain is reticent about his own knee-deep quagmire of offensive associational guilt.
Whatever the precise number, it has long been obvious to knowledgeable observers that this was coming, but the news will come as a shock to many people who still don't realize how deep a quagmire Mr. Bush has gotten us into.
Since the collapse of the Enron Corporation, which built it, Dabhol has become one of India's deepest financial quagmires.
THE deeper the Iraqi quagmire, the more remarkable it is to contemplate the lone superpower of a century ago.
They are seriously concerned about overstretch and, as important, about getting bogged down deeper in the quagmire.
Is it more humane and less costly to get out of Iraq before we are in a deeper and deadlier quagmire than Vietnam?
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For years, residents of the impoverished and violence-riven province of Baluchistan have complained about their chief minister, angry that he was enjoying a lavish lifestyle in Pakistan's capital even while their province slid deeper into a quagmire of militant attacks, state repression and sectarian bloodshed.
Yet her track record reveals a hawk, from supporting war in Iraq as a senator to pushing for stronger action in Afghanistan as secretary of state; she still believes Obama should have become more involved in the Syrian rebellion, which would only have sucked the nation deeper into the quagmire.
For those who believe he was on his way out of Vietnam when he was assassinated, how to explain the dramatic coup three weeks before his death that overthrew the government of Ngo Dinh Diem and pulled the U.S. ever deeper into the quagmire?
