That sizzling sound you’re hearing from U.S. Army posts across the nation is little fish frying. It reminds me of the battlefield, where it’s almost always the grunts who get hung out to do the dying.

A squad of the enlisted perps who made their bones via the Abu Ghraib abomination are going down, and so they should. They’ve disgraced the American profession of arms by committing atrocities as high on the national shame scale as Vietnam’s My Lai. But while the accused – untrained, part-time soldiers ill-prepared for their prison-guard mission – most definitely deserve to be punished, where are the whales who disregarded the Geneva Convention in line with our president’s ill-considered insistence that prisoners in the war on terror are “unlawful combatants”?