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debacle 42 irrelevancy 42 quandary 42 bogged down 41 twilight zone 41 mudhole 41 historical analogies 41 irrelevance 41 miring 41 meat grinder 41 unsimilar dissimilar 41 embroilment 41 perdition 41 ruinous 41 imperial overstretch 41 hopelessly bogged 41 morasses 41 Hobbesian 41 swamp 41 purgatory 40 oblivion 40 quagmired 40 dilemma 40 muddy quagmire 40 situation 40 deflationary trap 40 Vietnamisation 40 debt peonage 40 malaise 40 imperial overreach 40 gyrating capsule 40 conflict 40 predicaments 40 conundrum 40 abject poverty scrounging 40 relegation mire 40 self fulfilling prophesy 39 internecine strife 39 sectarian bloodshed unleashed 39 partisan squabbling 39 proverbial slippery slope 39 headlong plunge 39 rabbit hole 39 misgovernment 39 bureaucratic snarls 39 vicious cycle 39 perilous 39 hellishness 39 mud puddle 39 Salvador Option 39 deflationary depression 39 internecine conflict 39 Padraig Harrington Ernie Els 39 defeatists 39 charnel house 39 Vietnamization 39 rigmarole 39 Iraqization 39 non existent WMDs 39 bureaucratic maze 38 slog 38 utter chaos 38 hyperinflationary depression 38 utter hopelessness 38 sticky wicket 38 hornets nest 38 dung heap 38 ignominy 38 misery 38 extricate ourselves 38 isolationism sir 38 limbo 38 slippery slopes 38 childish bickering 38 troubles 38 man's land 38 festering sore 38 crosscurrent 38 disastrous 38 train wreck 38 desuetude 38 Clausewitzian 38 tangled mess 38 shitstorm 38 real politik 38 vortex 38 internecine wars 38 cesspit 38 tangle 38 netherworld 38 sectarian bloodbath 38 veritable minefield 38 fratricidal war 38 defeatist mindset 38 turmoil 38 shambles 38 disastrous consequences 38 trap 38 incoherence 38 adventurism 38 liberal interventionism 38 de facto partition 38 wasteland 38 murky waters 38 Quagmire 38 Gordian knots 38 hellish nightmare 37 depravations 37 bottomless abyss 37 fantasyland 37 cass cass 37 Iraq 37 brinks 37 legalisms 37 downspin 37 proverbial ostrich 37 bloodbath 37 doldrums 37 paralysis 37 slippery slope 37 gridlock 37 stagnation 37 mudbath 37 Maginot line 37 precipitous pullout 37 nightmare scenario 37 trench warfare 37 Hill Ciders 37 petty bickering 37 dilemmas 37 postinvasion 37 humanitarian catastrophe 37 hopeless 37 muddy 37 penury 37 fetid swamp 37 disarray 37 charade 37 bureaucratic entanglements 37 minefields 37 partisan finger pointing 37 backwash 37 protracted 37 agony 37 entanglements 37 blundering 36 squabbling factions 36 Indecisiveness 36 crises 36 entangling alliances 36 woes 36 utter helplessness 36 ignominious defeat 36 bureaucratic labyrinth 36 despair 36 pitfall 36 undertow 36 ignominious retreat 36 murky 36 Pragmatically 36 idiocracy 36 defeatism 36 nightmarish 36 endgame 36 malaise gripping 36 unpayable 36 relegation dogfight 36 disgrace 36 Tatchell yelled 36 deep doo doo 36 calamity 36 Jeffersonian democracy 36 internecine squabbling 36 interventionism 36 relegation scrap 36 misbegotten 36 pre-#/# mindset 36 imperial hegemony 36 domino theory 36 insolvable 36 calamitous consequences 36 farce 36 seemingly bottomless pit 36 incompetence 36 Iraqification 36 Saddamism 36 abject failure 36 darkest recesses 36 overstretch 36 lunacy 36 shortsightedness 36 meatgrinder 36 Hamas stan 36 bungling incompetence 36 choas 36 beaurocracy 36 muddy swamp 36 intellectually bankrupt 36 intervening militarily 36 inbalance 36 difficulties 35 casus belli 35 fratricidal conflict 35 extricates itself 35 impasse 35 debacles 35 messy 35 deathtrap 35 realties 35 Chea Keo 35 beaurocratic 35 mutual recrimination 35 consequencies 35 hopelessly mired 35 Kafkaesque 35 immiseration 35 utter incompetence 35 deposing Saddam Hussein 35 instability 35 millstone 35 shemozzle 35 Balkanised 35 hydra headed monster 35 thickets 35 baleful consequences 35 internecine warfare 35 ideological brinksmanship 35 broad sunlit uplands 35 madness 35 fratricidal warfare 35 neo feudal 35 Harried commuters 35 Nixon Vietnamization 35 irreconcilable contradiction 35 BushCo 35 monstrosity 35 blunder 35 unmanned sailboat 35 farrago 35 emboldening terrorists 35 Ba'th regime 35 fractured polity 35 incompetently executed 35 misgovern 35 bureaucratic nightmares 35 misgovernance 35 Balkanization 35 unilateral preemptive 35 netherland 35 nighmare 35 wars 35 untenable 35 lesser evilism 35 stagnancy 35 Guerrilla warfare 35 poor schnook 35 pitfalls 35 cumbersome bureaucracy 35 unpayable debt 35 deposing dictator 35 bureaucratic ineptitude 35 Defeatocrats 35 Assigning blame 35 catastophe 35 Balkanisation 35 immobilism 35 Hamastan 35 analyst Kadhum 35 murkiness 35 incalculable consequences 35 agonies 35 vicious spiral 35 Orwellian nightmare 35 exits Kupchan 35 idée fixe 35 seeming hopelessness 35 recessionary spiral 35 shifting sands 35 politically fraught 35 hasty withdrawal 35 whirlpool 35 gravest injustices 35 catastrophy 35 intractable 34 neo isolationism 34 temporized 34 bog 34 Hobbesian nightmare 34 unescapable 34 Leebaert 34 BushCheney 34 boggy 34 mediocrity 34 ethnic animosities 34 woe 34 muddles 34 sit uation 34 follies 34 enmeshed 34 destabilized 34 conflagration 34 miry 34 inept incompetent 34 impenetrable thicket 34 untold misery 34 irresolvable conflict 34 glooming 34 horribly mismanaged 34 chasm 34 boiling cauldron 34 bottomless depths 34 non existent WMD 34 Frankenstein monsters 34 boondoggle 34 shallow brackish 34 bureaucratic gridlock 34 treacherous shoals 34 destitution 34 fool errand 34 internecine 34 fratricidal 34 downward spiral 34 morally bereft 34 self recrimination 34 temporize 34 factional strife 34 isolationism 34 factional infighting 34 Gordian knot 34 God forsaken 34 Baathist tyranny 34 hot potato 34 Lebanonization 34 ideological zealotry 34 ineptness 34 downwards spiral 34 throe 34 irresolution 34 treacherous currents 34 probelms 34 transatlantic rift 34 despotism 34 cleft stick 34 minds McCleod 34 mudpit 34 Sisyphean task 34 bureaucratic indifference 34 Fetid 34 fiascoes 34 Unintended consequences 34 troop withdrawl 34 bureaucratic logjams 34 entrenchments 34 infighting 34 keeps pluming 34 descending spiral 34 absurdity 34 utter shambles 34 neo Wilsonian 34 ethical minefield 34 blowback 34 Colonel Ghadafi 34 afganistan 34 stumbling blindly 34 deposing Saddam 34 proconsul Paul 34 intransigence 34 unwieldy bureaucracy 34 hopelessly corrupt 34 basketcase 34 impass 34 mires 34 muddy waters 34 haplessly 34 defeatist 34 muddy bog 34 incompetently 34 ash heap 34 counterproductively 34 GWOT 34 mendacity 34 corporatocracy 34 divisiveness 34 stag deflation 34 Chilcott Inquiry 34 Kafka esque nightmare 34 stasis 34 sclerotic bureaucracy 34 hubris 34 labyrinth 34 internal strife 34 travesty 34 pervasive weariness 34 depose Saddam Hussein 34 GRANGER Water 34 outselves 34 grim realities 34 clusterfuck 34 rapids cascading 34 trainwreck 34 creeping nationalization 34 corrosive cynicism 34 embarrassment 34 unpopularity 34 sitaution 34 ignominious 34 unlosable election 34 warhawks 34 riptide 34 muddled 34 imponderables 34 implausible calamities 34 unsettlement 34 neo feudalism 34 Political expediency 34 proverbial rug 34 shadowland 34 bedlam 33 bogged 33 arrogant unilateralism 33 Shia crescent 33 catastrophe 33 utter folly 33 deflationary spiral 33 pickle 33 Orwellian doublespeak 33 ramify 33 excrescence 33 ruction 33 ditherers 33 abstract noun 33 pathological aversion 33 bellicosity 33 odious debts 33 abject failures 33 reckoning 33 wholly unsuited 33 sordid affair 33 boot straps 33 insiderism 33 peril 33 occupation 33 nonexistent WMDs 33 miseries 33 sectarian hatreds 33 neocons 33 relentless drumbeat 33 Maoist insurrection 33 anarchy reigns 33 Key Developments Concerning 33 ignobly 33 mud 33 pusillanimity 33 humble ketchup packet 33 petty squabbling 33 demagoguery 33 irresolute 33 heedless 33 moral cowardice 33 Weimar republic 33 elder Bacevich 33 Barry Burn 33 naval gazing 33 invidious comparisons 33 Polisario Front guerrillas 33 facilely 33 apostate rulers 33 sophistries 33 unenviable position 33 tyrannical rule 33 sheer incompetence 33 strife ridden 33 situtation 33 shifting rationales 33 ills besetting 33 mudholes 33 ruination 33 incessant bickering 33 isolationists 33 incompetent 33 morally obtuse 33 vacuum 33 uncertainities 33 interminable delays 33 Monicagate 33 trouble 33 spinelessly 33 maze 33 oppressive theocracy 33 seemingly insoluble 33 rubbish heap 33 direr 33 bloodbaths 33 previous fragging incidents 33 GWBush 33 rathole 33 indecision 33 gutter 33 rubble Lerebours 33 utopian fantasies 33 apocalyptically 33 murderous dictator 33 insanities 33 fractiousness 33 nameless unreasoning unjustified 33 treacherous 33 inaction 33 politicalization 33 imperialist ambitions 33 moral vacuity 33 fuzzy pretenses 33 tribal enmities 33 Obamans 33 miscalculations 33 secessions 33 suckered 33 Lake Perucac 33 Clinton Lewinsky scandal 33 hellish 33 desert sands 33 upheavel 33 internecine squabbles 33 brutal dictatorship 33 partisan squabbles 33 internecine fighting 33 uncalculated adventures 33 fiascos 33 straitjacket 33 deadend 33 fools errand 33 realities 33 sunlit uplands 33 MC Escher drawing 33 military adventurism 33 uncritical cheerleader 33 maw 33 dire consequences 33 oppressive dictators 33 Adriano Fuego 33 ungovernability 33 siutation 33 neocon ideology 33 horrors 33 undesired consequences 33 wrangle 33 Shakespearean tragedy 33 primrose path 33 confict 33 slushy mess 33 vacillation 33 inexorably 33 bureaucracy 33 Islamofascists 33 machination 33 insuperable barrier 33 entrenched autocrats 33 dysfunctionalities 33 rankly 33 Racial inequality 33 dysfunctionality 33 Ypres Salient 33 irresponsibility 33 criminally incompetent 33 NAVARRO MILLS Water 33 foolishness 33 deluded idiot 33 conflicts 33 Pacific Sunwear Wet Seal 33 quandaries 33 problems besetting 33 treacherous terrain 33 blackhole 33 unpopular 33 murderous tyrant 33 bitter enders 33 theocratic dictatorship 33 shameless hypocrisy 33 iron curtain 33 opium poppy harvests 33 Godlessness 33 unendurable 33 legal ramifications Urbahn 33 whiners Gramm 33 utter exhaustion 33 bureaucratic obstacles 33 complexities 33 newspeak 33 primordial muck 33 Kafkaesque bureaucracy 33 mortal peril 33 seemingly unwinnable 32 wallowing 32 rocky shoals 32 Talibanized 32 fetid 32 Accountability Appropriations 32 Bushies 32 ditch 32 politics 32 yawning abyss 32 genocidal tendencies 32 rancorous partisanship 32 depressionary 32 Despondency 32 problems 32 mush 32 moral quandaries 32 mucky mess 32 Repeated sabotage 32 Unexploded munitions 32 crises afflicting 32 balkanised 32 messianic militarist 32 economically impoverish 32 Religious fanaticism 32 dire straits 32 ills afflicting 32 red tape 32 unipolar hegemony 32 protracts 32 cataclysm 32 war monger 32 wrangles 32 ancient ethnic hatreds 32 WMDs 32 precipitately 32 Jaw jaw 32 unsavory regimes 32 singularly inept 32 hopelessness 32 Zionist crusaders 32 idiocy 32 graver danger 32 neoconservative cabal 32 mediocracy 32 Mai Lai 32 sectarian reprisals 32 impends 32 jargon 32 neo imperialists 32 delegitimized 32 hubris arrogance 32 barbarism 32 uncivil discourse 32 Mingo Valencia 32 dithering 32 stalemates 32 unbridgeable chasm 32 indebt 32 stupor 32 sunny uplands 32 guerilla warfare 32 conflicting ideologies 32 plunge headlong 32 unmanageable 32 geopolitical realities 32 ecomonic 32 disasterous 32 turpitude 32 infinite regression 32 Grinding poverty 32 Afpak 32 bureaucratic limbo 32 specter haunting 32 ants nest 32 consequences 32 joylessness 32 Overseas Contingency Operation 32 harebrained scheme 32 Mohammad Rasid 32 inexorable slide 32 malaise afflicting 32 Shia theocracy 32 lawlessness prevails 32 festering 32 delusion 32 balkanization 32 Manichean struggle 32 imperial arrogance 32 Fallujahs 32 misleadership 32 Benign neglect 32 Haidar Jabar 32 irresolvable 32 widening gyre 32 Jeffrey Lucey 32 creeping socialism 32 WWIII 32 postbellum 32 schemozzle 32 strait jacket 32 economist Lu Zhengwei 32 swirling currents 32 mediocres 32 seemingly insolvable 32 unvirtuous cycle 32 pessimists 32 tribunal Weerawansa 32 Typhoon Ketsana roars 32 headlong rush 32 Augean stables 32 greenside lake 32 insoluble 32 embarassment 32 fascism 32 dictatorship 32 SKorean warship 32 extricating 32 ideological obsessions 32 Fatalism 32 doublespeak 32 throes 32 totalitarian impulses 32 ignominiously 32 realpolitik 32 sand trap 32 neverland 32 articulating coherent 32 wonderland 32 neo colony 32 PALIN Says Ronald Reagan 32 cri sis 32 teapot tempest 32 bottomless pits 32 dustbowl 32 legal wrangle 32 seemingly intractable sectarian tensions 32 Iraquis 32 incompetance 32 acrimonious tussles 32 inexorable logic 32 blunders 32 intransigency 32 dire straights 32 bureaucratic 32 recesssion 32 Afganistan 32 convoluted 32 Eelaam 32 tyranny 32 wastelands 32 unmitigated catastrophe 32 insuperable obstacles 32 colossal misjudgment 32 smokescreens 32 pyrrhic victories 32 Left untended 32 doomsday prophets 32 clan warfare 32 isolationist tendencies 32 intellectual laziness 32 messier 32 Bushite 32 chasms 32 muddleheaded 32 turmoil engulfing 32 Mutually assured destruction 32 wade 32 pyrrhic victory 32 Haditha massacre 32 atavism 32 blundered 32 inefficient bureaucracies 32 homicidal dictator 32 Issayas 32 dehumanisation 32 darkest depths 32 unfriendly regimes 32 squabbles 32 machinations 32 journalistic malfeasance 32 Unequivocal opposition 32 ice sheet Drgas 32 fatuous 32 jingoism 32 maws 32 nanny statism 32 unsimilar 32 moral obtuseness 32 monumental blunder 32 rat nest 32 inevitabilities 32 ugliness 32 hairsplitting 32 futilities 32 stumble blindly 32 bureaucratic hassles 32 outworn ideas 32 Patrick Reinsborough 32 malign neglect 32 platitude 32 calamaties 32 steaming pile 32 differing ideologies 32 seeming impossibility 32 irrationalism 32 avowed enemies 32 quisling 32 ordure 32 inherent contradictions 32 irredeemably corrupt 32 fiscal irresponsibility 32 unpalatable 32 know nothingism 32 Beinart argues 32 puddle 32 dysfunction 32 logjam 32 laughingstocks 32 toxic stew 31 delude ourselves 31 abject 31 stupidity 31 pell mell rush 31 tumult 31 philosophical dilemmas 31 haplessness 31 mayhem 31 backwater 31 interminable 31 RICHARD MYERS 31 precipitous withdrawal 31 sectionalism 31 Cloward Piven 31 Unforeseen circumstances 31 stubborness 31 intellectual incoherence 31 intractability 31 warzone 31 Trillion Dollar War 31 bloody internecine 31 Domino Theory 31 spiral 31 Invading 31 preemptive wars 31 fertile crescent 31 meaninglessness 31 pre-#/# mentality 31 backwaters 31 utter humiliation 31 Waning Ida downpours 31 irredentism 31 thoroughly discredited 31 hullabaloos 31 needlessly prolonging 31 havocs 31 rosy scenario 31 wrongheadedness 31 WASHINGTON Urgently 31 Dr. Strangeloves 31 Calling spade spade 31 Euphrates Rivers 31 Smoot Hawley tariffs 31 structural impediments 31 uncharted waters 31 wretchedness 31 here Deb Greelis 31 festering hatreds 31 track puddle pratfall 31 aroused citizenry 31 occupying armies 31 self fulfilling prophecy 31 situ ation 31 imperial conquests 31 unpropitious 31 stagnant 31 prevaricating 31 factionalisation 31 kneejerk reactions 31 hubristic 31 dangerously overextended 31 grossly mismanaged 31 gibbering idiot 31 multiethnic multisectarian democracy 31 become dehydrated taters 31 entanglement 31 REUTERS Namir Noor Eldeen 31 soggy mess 31 DAILY STAR Jose Mourinho 31 belated realization 31 hopelessly indebted 31 unholy alliances 31 unfixable 31 trash heap 31 confusing warren 31 imprudence 31 Wishful thinking 31 fruitlessness 31 idee fixe 31 overstretching 31 ineptitudes 31 conflicting loyalties 31 Saddam Husayn 31 spinelessness 31 onrush 31 colossal miscalculation 31 thugocracy 31 peradventure 31 ruts 31 nothingness 31 farcical 31 festering wound 31 deeper 31 DCI yearlong 31 Talibanize 31 neoconservative ideologues 31 Detach yourself 31 clashing civilizations 31 logistical nightmares 31 raging torrent 31 psychological traumas 31 Baathist remnants 31 disinterested observer 31 Neocons 31 recession 31 dire 31 Legalized abortion 31 mindlessness 31 Bush# 31 ad hocism 31 saddam 31 featureless desert 31 ills 31 grievous error 31 Ethio Eritrean 31 quandry 31 swiftboated 31 besets 31 internecine rivalries 31 ecological catastrophe 31 headlong 31 blunderers 31 neo cons 31 deepest recession 31 legalese 31 Skirmishing 31 underdevelopment