"Quagmire" was appropriately applied to Vietnam in 1968-1969 when LBJ had 538,000 American troops in the country, up from the 11,000 JFK had there in 1962. By the time RN ended deployment of American troops there in 1973, more than 58,000 troops had died there. That is a quagmire.
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Vietnam Became a Quagmire, Iran So Far, Is Not
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