Reply #23: I find in his war message an attempt to shift blame

[Bragi]

He is quoted as saying this: "As long as many of our sons and daughters and husbands and wives are at war, we've got to support their mission and honor their service..."

It actually seems, from that odd phrasing, as though many of our sons and daughters, etc. decided to go off to war, so we must support them.

It's as though the fact they are at war has nothing to do with his own failure/refusal to stop the war and bring them home.

That deliberate or inadvertent attempt to suggest a transfer of responsibility fails big time with me.

The President is responsible for the escalation of the pointless and unpopular Afghanistan war, not the soldiers who are fighting it.