I wish McCain had spent more of his many years in the Senate demanding more military spending (where are all those speeches, Mark asks his operatives?), I wish he had fought to strengthen the CIA prior to 9/11, I wish he had called the nation to arms – given his experience and status – against al-Qaeda well before 9/11. He deserves credit for urging a surge, but Bush was listening to his generals, and in the end to Petreaus, not McCain. And I wish one of the others would remind McCain that the war includes the homeland – including border security, detaining the enemy at GITMO, and ugly interrogations – and carrying the ACLU’s brief is not the right position.