Quagmire...

[SteamWake]

That word was bandied about quite a bit during the Bush administration.

I find it a fitting description as to the situation in Afghanistan which BTW according to campaign promises would be "the focus on the war on terror".

Originally Posted by Foriegen service officer and former Marine Captain Matthew Hoh

"I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States' presence in Afghanistan," he wrote Sept. 10 in afour-page letter to the department's head of personnel. "I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2009102603447