With respect to foreign policy, this country has patiently endured a mismanaged war for nearly four years.
Still, the complexities at play are evident in Burundi, still enduring a civil war.
The eruption was one more misery for people in a region already enduring a long-running civil war.
The 'land girls', women sent to work on farms, also often endured a difficult war.
Since independence from the Netherlands in 1975 Suriname has endured coups and a civil war.
Unlike its neighbors, Costa Rica has not endured a civil war since 1948.
We have learned that the people of this country will not long endure a war that it does not really support.
Afghanistan spent the 1980's under Soviet occupation, enduring a war that killed perhaps a million people and sent perhaps six million into exile.
Then the country had to endure 15 years and a war before something worthwhile was hard-won.
By that time he had already endured a horrible war.