Dereliction of duty

Why women --- I am a woman, so I can safely judge without fear about charges of prejudice, although having to add such a qualifier is testimony to the harm feminism and political correctness have done to honest debate. -- should not be in the military.

Whiner Brigadier-General Janis Karpinski, complained in a BBC interview that there was a conspiracy to keep her uninformed. She was kept in the dark, quotes unnamed witnesses to her innocence, criticizes her superiors, and takes the conspiracy-as-defense, we-are-all guilty to the White House.

Taking it like a man isn't confined to men. She was responsible. She was wrong, and every action she has taken since she was suspended by the Pentagon confirm their opinion about her fitness to lead. She can't even take responsibility for herself.

The report that led to her suspension for dereliction of duty in clear violation of standards she wouldn't and couldn't follow in Iraq is precise. And damning.

She gives all women a bad name and for the Left to elevate her to victim status while simultaneously trashing the war in Iraq and the U.S. military in general, is no more than I expect of our media, women's groups or the Left.

The Left normally would celebrate the "dereliction of duty" charge as confirmation of their opinion of the military and the war and president Bush. However, they embrace the epitome of the kind of malfeasance they expect of the military not because she is a woman or a victim but because she is willing to be on their side in order to escape the consequences. They can have her. She belongs with people without honor or standards or decency.