From Charles Whitman up to the present day, the collective American memory preserves the name of the killer. We're far too fascinated with violence not to mythologize its perpetrators.

This coming Sunday we will observe the 10th anniversary of a terrible blow to our nation's sense of security and confidence. We need to remember who we are. And in the act of remembering we will regain our confidence and our economic strength.

For the past half century, the military-industrial complex has perpetuated one war after another, at enormous cost in both blood and money. In its lust for oil, it has broken country after country, and now the sea floor.

McCain gave a speech today at the University of Denver where he addressed the issues of nuclear security and nuclear proliferation. Anti-war proteste...