Not one General was prepared to haul Krapinski over the coals for poor performance.
The fear of a PC backlash allowed an inept woman a command that she did not deserve and where she failed to maintain discipline.
Very real possibility..
MANAMA, Bahrain (NNS) -- Commander, U.S. 5th Fleet has directed that the commanding officer of USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) be relieved Aug. 27, as a result of a collision that occurred between a dhow and Kennedy during the night of July 22.
Didn't take them long to fix the problem with a male commander though, did it?
Belatedly, let me express my complete agreement with you. Where in the investigative reports do they comment that Gen. Sanchez, who was blamed for not sacking Karpinski, had a war to fight and didn't need the distraction of Congressional inquiries and Washington-based hearings over his reasons for firing a showcase general in these times of extreme political correctness and election fever?
Too often, these investigations are woefully partisan or surrealistically ivory-towerish and divorced from reality, the 9/11 Commission being a prime example. That is, where did those commissioners address issues of Congressional failures through meddling in intelligence agencies matters and time-consuming grandstanding, its effects of agency morale and effectiveness, conflicts of interest, etc.?