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Patricia also bogs down in the details of translating her earlier book into a Hollywood screenplay, with Kurt Russell keen on the part of her father.

And obviously, Folds knows that a show that stars a beagle and a small yellow bird that defies classification is not the right place to get bogged down in the issues of the day.

But the effort was ultimately bogged down by internal bureaucracy and international pressure — most notably from Qatar and Turkey, both sometime U.S. partners that harbor strong Brotherhood sympathies and bankroll Islamist causes.

“There were a lot more dead ends and red herrings that would bog down readers,” Hogan observes.

The Russians then crossed into Ukraine but quickly became bogged down in fighting over small border villages, which keep changing hands even today.