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...fingers of a man who's been plundering cars since the 1950s. During World War II, Palamarchuk claims he served on an underwater-demolition team in the Pacific, being paid, in effect, "$54 a month to kill people." As a result, he says, filching cars never posed an ethical dilemma for him. Over lunch, he insists he's "retired" after stealing more than 1,000 cars -- enough to help put two daughters through law and medical school. "Thank God, they didn't follow me," he says with a frenzied laugh. "Who the hell needs another car thief in the family...
Boutros Boutros-Ghali is justifiably angry. Another U.N. contingent, reportedly Saudi, was similarly insubordinate. If the troops don't obey the orders of the U.N. commander, then the U.N. force dissolves overnight. But there is no cure for this dilemma, because at its heart lies the U.N. fiction. Its soldiers wear the same colored hats, but they have differently colored , allegiances. When ordered into danger, they will always phone home. How are we going to abolish the allegiance soldiers feel to their flag and country? And how are we going to prevent governments from exercising sovereign control over their...
There are two ways out of this dilemma. The U.N. could develop its own army, a kind of foreign legion for desperadoes, mercenaries and idealists from around the world. They would come to New York and swear allegiance to Boutros- Ghali and the blue flag. A fine idea, but even as a screenplay, farfetched...
...that "Don't ask, don't tell" expands privacy rights by asserting that soldiers have no obligation to tell, but the concealment contemplated actually asks one to live a lie in order to serve. Bill Clinton understood this clearly last February, when he asked the Pentagon to study the dilemma. "I think people should not be asked to lie if they're going to be allowed to serve," the President said. "The question is not whether they should be there or not. They are there. The narrow question of this debate is . . . Should you be able to say that...
...despite the Tomahawks that hit Baghdad last week, Saddam is likely to remain in power, even as his people become more dispirited. Says a diplomat in Iraq: "The more you beat him, the stronger he becomes." That is a dilemma Bill Clinton seems no closer to resolving than George Bush...