Yes, it is swamp.

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.

Keep mocking the Interior Ministry, that swamp of psychological sicknesses.

And it was set in a wider watery ooze.

Maybe it was swamp gas, but (Laughter)

Russia found itself in a quagmire almost instantly.

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

Although they got kind of bogged down there.

That one down there nothing but a damn swamp.

Unfortunately for him, he fell into a swamp and couldn't get out.

Jungian analysts call shame the swampland of the soul.

It's the most tropical country in the world, a marshland on the equator.

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.

And our brains our celebrated brains reflect a drainage of a tidal marsh.

I made a pastureland out of this place when it was nothing but a swamp.

Don't step off the track or you'll find yourself in Grimpen Mire.

Keep close to me. Don't go off left, or you'll be in Grimpen Mire.

Come on, you swamptoed jungle rat! Let's get a jug up here.

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

Some have sunk into the longest recession since the Second World War.

This is the view over Times Square, with the beaver pond there, looking out toward the east.

And he moved away because it was his last fishing trip, and he knew that the dolphins scare fish.

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

What has possibly changed today?

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

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.

You must go deep into the Marmitian Swamp, and seek the help of an old knight named Paul.

You know, the perpetrators aren't these monsters who crawl out of the swamp and come into town and do their nasty business and then retreat into the darkness.

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.

The proliferation of treaty bodies and agenda items results in a morass of duplication, waste, inefficiency and loss of focus.

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.

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.

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.