Did she forget that she was a general and commander of the installation? Why didn't she take action to correct the person's behavior and/or have him removed?
Karpinski talks like she was a buck private that couldn't do anything about any of this. A commander that sees this, does nothing about it, and complains later is a total loser in my book.
"Figure it out, Janis," she says she was told. The dismal prison went without running water for two months.
There's initiative that I like to see in a general. < /sarcasm > As a commander, Karpinski must have expected to sit around a plush office sipping cognac and hitting the officer's club around 2:00 every day.
It appears that Karpinski forgot that she was responsible for keeping running water going. If her people aren't trained properly, it's her responsibility to get them trained right. Karpinski must have moved up the ranks in do-nothing jobs and when she was put in command of a field unit, she didn't have a clue how to run any aspect of it. All she does is complain that others weren't doing it for her. Her lack of discipline, lack of initiative, and sense of futility appears to have been picked up quickly by people under her. 'If the commander doesn't care, why should I?'