My first thought when this story broke was that she reminded me of Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb in "From Russia With Love". Then as it kept going, and it came out how little control she seemed to have over the prison, she started to remind me of Werner Klemperer as Colonel Wilhelm Klink.
Karpinski is the classic example of what happens to the military when a politician who panders to the lesbian/feminist/Hillary constituency is President. But what is more disturbing is that she was promoted from Colonel to General AFTER the 2002 shoplifting incident. Bush and Rummy need to see this crap coming. They need to destroy the Army culture that allowed a Karpinski to happen in the first place.