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
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