Concensus has now been reached that the most moral as well as the most efficacious approach to resolving the Cambodian dilemma demands U.N. intervention rather than the establishment of some sort of interim quadripartite administration of Cambodian factions. including the Khmer Rouge. In this geopolitical context. I would stress. as so many refugee Khmer have pointed out over the past year. that there are times in the affairs of states when the moral high ground must be sought. even if socalled realpolitik alternatives appear enticing. The United States was wrong to seriously consider supporting a quadripartite arrangement last summer. for it not only would have provided a cloak of legitimacy to Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. it would have given the most permiciously vindictive force in the history of Southwest Asia the upper hand with its lesswellarmed rivals. This resolution properly stands in stark contrast to the alleged realpolitik solutions advanced by some a few months ago.