To improve the world, U.S. should stay home
It is time for the United States to mind its own business regarding the Middle East.
Let’s suppose Iran does come up with a nuclear weapon and threatens to use it.
Israel will know before anyone else. Let Israel handle it.
I doubt seriously that Egypt or Saudi Arabia want a nuclear war in their neighborhood.
Their wealth would be destroyed. So why must we be the ones to threaten to go to war with every nation in the world that grumbles about what it will do to us (or anyone)?
We have become the most warring nation on the face of the earth.
While nations grumble, we attack countries who do not attack us.
We did it in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, and we have done it in the Middle East.
It is time for the United States to mind its own business and stay home.
The world would be better off if we did.
William E. Lynch, Adairsville
Assisted suicide is not best option for elderly
In response to Wendell Stephenson’s piece on ensuring death with “dignity,” surely there are other options — better options than assisted suicide for end-of-life challenges (“Ensuring death with dignity,” Opinion, Jan. 7).
Surely the use of nourishment, fluids, medication and technical advances can help mitigate the pain or suffering of the medical conditions sometimes experienced by the elderly.
Surely our laws should protect the elderly from organizations that would try to convince them that this is the only option with dignity.
Surely as a people we are better than this.
Jennifer Morath, Tyrone
Chicago can teach Atlanta some lessons
I travel Buford Highway between North Druid Hills and Clairmont roads daily. The need for sidewalks and well-marked crossings is all too obvious.
There are mostly apartments along this stretch.
Mothers push baby carriages on the bumpy ruts worn beside this heavily traveled road.
Crosswalks are nonexistent. Traffic whizzes by.
It is a miracle that there isn’t a car vs. pedestrian accident daily, as there are many people walking along the road at all hours of the day and night.
When I visit family in Chicago, I can’t help but compare it to Atlanta on transit and pedestrian and bicycle accommodations.
Chicago has sidewalks and bike paths everywhere.
One can go all over town and the suburbs without using a car.
It is obvious that the state of Georgia gives a very low priority to any form of transit other than the automobile.
Gary Hunnicutt, Lilburn
