quagmire

“I can’t get them to initiate the money. It’s just a quagmire.”

The quagmire of falsified and lost records for Syria's missing children means surviving mothers and fathers are left to hunt from one institution to the next for any information at all.

She is simply not interested in the “you always,” “I never” emotional quagmires a gridlocked freeway or rerouting decision can churn up.

“Hopefully, the Supreme Court of the United States will put an END to the quagmire.”

By my count, the last time was 2003 and the U.S. was embroiled in a Middle East quagmire.