Turkey s Quagmire

Many others talk of being drawn inexorably into an Afghanistan style quagmire.

Yes, it is swamp. We live in the swamp in a tent, but I must tell you, every day is exhilarating.

Russia found itself in a quagmire almost instantly.

Maybe it was swamp gas, but I know what I saw.

The Nakivubo Swamp is an excellent example of the need for careful valuation of the environment.

Every society, under certain conditions, is vulnerable to a descent into barbarism.

There seem to be two common characteristics of the descent into barbarism.

That absence of self criticism is what led America into the Iraq quagmire.

First, the US and global economies remain mired in recession.

The French, by contrast, faced a future in which it is difficult to foresee to what pitch of stupid excesses their egotism may lead them, and into what disgrace and wretchedness they would plunge themselves, lest they should have to sacrifice something of their own well being to the prosperity of their fellow creatures.

China s statistical agency is still mired in communist input output accounting.

The Afghan quagmire and America s image are not the only problems facing NATO.

Hard to be Easing

Unless the economies of developing countries grow, they will remain mired in poverty.

The descent into barbarism generally occurs in the midst of economic crisis or when localized violence has already flared.

That's hard to say.

Turkey s Balancing Act

In the bloody, hostile miasma of the Middle East, being a winner in any sense of the word is fallacious.

While the American economy gets dragged down further in a swamp of bad property debts, China will continue to boom.

But it won't be easy for him, either, because America is caught in a quagmire.

Europe s other natural interventionist, Great Britain, has its hands more than full in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Germany remains reluctant to intervene in general, and in a conflict that so directly involves Israel in particular, leaving only France to act.

That means paying down debt and rebuilding savings, leaving consumer demand mired in protracted weakness.

It is difficult to translate a poem into another language.

It's hard to persuade Jonathan.

The hard work begins now.

It is difficult to generalize.

It is difficult to prove a negative.

This problem is too difficult for me to solve.

We hardly ever see you around here.

It's hard being a parent.

The latter two are difficult to liquidate.

Hard to believe, right?..

Yesterday was an indescribable day.

Even the constitutional treaty, which should have been a clarion call for all Europeans, was allowed to become bogged down in minutia.

We have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, he warned, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand.

It was difficult to remove the coffee stain.

It's going to be difficult for us to do that.

It is difficult to disagree with the protesters.

Obama s Rocky Path to Success in Syria

Credible data is hard to obtain.

It is hard to photograph peacebuilding.

But the US cannot withdraw without sending the entire region into chaos.

Instead, it has resurfaced to drag governments and economies down the sinkhole of austerity.

But today we have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand.