Specialist Megan Ambuhl; Specialist Sabrina Harman; Private Lynndie England; and Janis Karpinski, an Army reserve brigadier general who had been commander of the 800th Military Police Brigade in charge of military prisons in Iraq and was "formally admonished and quietly suspended" in January -- "the only female commander in the war zone," according to Seymour M. Hersh.
The proportion of women in the US military is just 15%. While women are no doubt as capable of sadistic brutality as men, the gender disproportion in prosecution tells me that _a lot of men_ who committed the same or worse crimes remain protected by the military's institutional sexism.
The rest of my thoughts is at <http://montages.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_montages_archive.html#108343800049819210>. -- Yoshie
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