but history shows president obama prefers to focus in his state of the union address on domestic issues and not the war in afghanistan. the president has not been talking about it. he s not been explaining what s happening, why it s important to our security. he s pretty much ignored it in the past. a recent study by stars and stripes newspaper showed wars and veteran policy made up 10 pest to 20% of the past five state of the union speeches g e given by president obama compared to his predecessor who spent nearly half of his speeches on national security. president bush mentioned the wars in afghanistan and iraq nearly 50 times in his last state of the union sdraesz. in 2009, president obama mentioned them just six times out of more than 6,000 words. 2002, and barack obama had committed troops rather than been responsible for returning them home with the national mood what it was then, i think there