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and, most importantly, to any service members who took offense

He feels his statement wasn't offensive in itself, but he apologizes for service members reaction to his statement.

[Carl Vehse]

"and, most importantly, to any service members who took offense"

He feels his statement wasn't offensive in itself, but he apologizes for service members reaction to his statement.

That's right! Instead of apologizing for what he said, Friedman essentially issues an apology on behalf of people for their taking offense to what he said.

Somehow these people mistakenly viewed what he said "as disparaging to U.S. service members," despite "that was certainly not my intent." But Friedman apologizes for them anyway. What pompous demonrat arrogance!

[lonevoice]

Exactly. I don’t know when these weasley apologies became so prevalent, but they stink on ice.