Sex, Crime, and the Military

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

What is also noteworthy in the case of torture and murder of Iraqi
prisoners is that out of the _seven_ individuals who are officially
exposed to have been implicated in the crimes, _four_ are women:

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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