Time Magazine has good articles explaining the trouble brewing in the south between pro-US and pro-Iranian ayatollahs, and the trouble brewing in the north that could force the Coalition™ to defend Iraqi territory against the Turkish military. Of course, they might well have trouble doing so, since the war plan left Coalition™ forces so thin in the north. “But with every day... the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.”

My Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary doesn't have the Arabic word for “quagmire” in it; I suspect it will make its way into the next edition.