If You’re In A Labyrinth, Does It Matter If You Turn A Corner?

I ask this because behind all of the misleading rhetoric, half-truths and unkept promises, the problem with the “turn the corner” language for most people is that the corner keeps receding out of view.  Suppose that “turning the corner,” so to speak, achieved nothing and simply prolonged the agony of roaming aimlessly through a maze without end?  What if you could “turn” a hundred “corners” and still be no closer to “victory”?  Could we admit at that point that it was time to bring our people home and stop wasting their lives in vain attempts at angular maneuvers?