The only choice: a new Congress

Regarding the Oct. 6 letter, “The only choice: Stay the course”: To “stay the course” with Iraq's escalating sectarian violence, while Iran and North Korea build their nuclear capabilities, means eventually reactivating a draft of all able-bodied men and women, as some have suggested. Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail and take a bipartisan approach, the equivalent of Ronald Reagan's diplomacy-with-a-big-stick. Prolonged war will waste more oil resources and more lives on a war machine, competing with increasing consumer demand for oil, the basis of our way of life. The current Congress, controlled by President Bush and Karl Rove, will not change course, so a bipartisan Congress must exist after the Nov. 7 election. That's the only choice. Charles Andrade, Galloway Twp - Published in the Atlantic City Press, October 16, 2006