Obama's Tuesday Evening: What It Will Mean

Winter approaches in Afghanistan

President Obama is preparing to give a speech to the nation about his plans to send more troops into Afghanistan. No doubt, many of us will be watching.

Those who will not will be the ones who disagree with him altogether. Nothing he says, and nothing the milbloggers (from BabaTim to BlackFive) have been continuously saying will sway them from their isolationist opinion.

Certainly, I realize that a commitment will mean more deployments for my husband. But I always knew this is how we'd be spending the next decade or two of our lives. Helping those with medical needs be it soldiers or locals was always a given of a lifetime's work. Personally, I think building hospitals in the towns (not on the FOB's), and providing clinical services is a great way to make inroads with the local populations. Providing medical training --be it nurses or for doctors to care for their injured or sick is the right thing to do.

Regrettably, there is risk involved and we all have to prepare ourselves for more wounded and casualties in the months to come. This reality rests heavy on all of us. There's not much more I can say than that.