An Update:
Seems like the Military Justice wheels ARE turning, BB (as suggested in the Op Ed you posted):
WASHINGTON - “The Army reprimanded and fined a colonel who was in charge of an intelligence unit at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq during the period of prisoner abuse, but the service chose not to press criminal charges, an official said Wednesday”.
“Col. Thomas M. Pappas, commander of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, based in Germany, had faced the possibility of criminal prosecution under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but a two-star general instead administered what the military calls nonjudicial punishment”.
“Pappas is among the highest ranking officers whose actions have been scrutinized in the abuse scandal. Only one general - Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski - has been punished. She was demoted to colonel”.
Mufasa