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