Pubdate: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News (CO) Copyright: 2002, Denver Publishing Co. Contact: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/371 Author: Mary Ann Cunningham Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n000/a029.html HOW FAR WILL LESSONS ON ETHICS FOR CADETS GO? I found the March 23 News story, "Air Force Academy stressing ethics," puzzling. Academy officials, it seems, are troubled because of "ethical breaches by cadets." Most of the offenses concern drugs -- either use of drugs or failure to report users. I am curious to know whether the young men and women at the Air Force Academy -- "our best and brightest" as the article calls them -- will ever come face-to-face in ethics classes with their own choice to drop bombs on innocent people, devastate water supplies in arid lands or prevent the delivery of food to starving people. Do they ever confront the conscious decision made by some of their Israeli peers and choose not to cooperate, not to keep quiet about the abusers, their own officers and government leaders who apparently justify to them the raining of death from the skies? Mary Ann Cunningham Denver - --- MAP posted-by: Ariel