President Bush’s new war adviser says that the USA should consider the draft. This means that men and women (yes, thanks to feminism, women will be certainly eligible for the next draft) in their late teens and early twenties could be called upon to fight for the USA or to serve in other capacities. As a teacher and new father it saddens and angers me to read this. However, as long as leaders in both parties continue to insist that the USA is the world’s policemen, there must be bodies to do the policing. I hope our President and Congress choose peace and reality in their foreign policy decisions rather than perpetual war and the inevitable draft that comes from it.