In a few months we'll arrive at the seventh year after the events of September 11, 2001. All can recall the coming together of the nation in the aftermath, and then how the coming together fell apart.

Reflecting the nation, the two parties have fought over the prison at Guantanamo, waterboarding three of the captured terrorists and tapping their overseas phone calls. Both candidates in the six-month Democratic primary said repeatedly that the president's strategies against the terrorists who did the airliner atrocities have...