They were ignored, so they rebelled.The war paused between 1972 and 1983, but then resumed.
A week and a half ago, on CNN's "State of the Union," Senator John McCain, calling for an immediate escalation of the war, paused to acknowledge the corruption of the Karzai government and added, By the way, small item, I'd say his brother should leave the country.
On Sunday, by a quirk of the calendar, two peoples fated to clash in two catastrophic wars paused to remember the two events which between them marked the beginning and end of the short, bloody 20th century.
When asked what other conflicts through history had similar dynamics, Barbara F. Walter, a University of California, San Diego, professor and a leading expert on civil wars, paused, considered a few possibilities, then gave up.
The terrifying news coming from Central Europe on an hourly basis should give anyone who knows anything about the Second World War pause.
Reconstruction, after a war that paused only for one decade in the past five, will be a colossal task.And what then?
Asked how he felt about the contrast between the searches for Americans and Vietnamese lost in the war, he paused a long moment before answering.
The most enthusiastic supporters of the war suddenly pause in pain, as if pierced by a memory that contradicts them, while those now vocally opposed to the American presence in Iraq surprise themselves with abrupt declarations of patriotism.
Hoping the answer will be no, I ask him, "Is there going to be a war?" He pauses, as if trying to decide what to say to a child, and then chooses to be honest, even if it might lead to a night of bad dreams.
Since re-establishing diplomatic ties in 1976, after a post-war pause, they and their relationship have in many ways been transformed.
Asked how he spent the war, Uke Javori paused and pointed to the distant mountains.
