In each case, the result is quagmire for the United States, imperial overstretch and a burdensome defense budget.
The result has been quagmire after quagmire, trillions of dollars in costs and tens of thousands of dead and maimed Americans.
Over time Picard discovered that despite his best hopes and efforts, sometimes a quagmire is a quagmire and there is no reason to die for a hopeless cause: "It is possible to commit no error and still lose, Data.
The floor was a quagmire of cables.
The field was a quagmire out there.
(John Leo's column in U.S. News & World Report was headlined "Quagmire, Schmagmire").
The level of play turned as sloppy as the field, which was a quagmire in the unseasonable warmth.
Many conservatives -- and not only conservatives -- took the position last September that the Security Council was a quagmire to be skirted, not a legitimizing body to be courted.
"It was a quagmire by Saturday and [by] Sunday it had turned into sticky bog".
His first appearance was in "Quagmire's Baby", which first aired shortly before the DVD release of "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side".
