Well, the orange alert has finally been lowered to yellow. The purported organizer of the 9/11 attacks is now under arrest. And this week, rather than protecting us from biological or chemical poison, it seems that duct tape is being promoted as the perfect cure for warts! Perhaps, just a bit of our terror has subsided.

And yet unsettling news is still around us. Tens of thousands of our troops are still in Iraq. Contrary to the wisdom of most religious leaders, including the Stated Clerk and Moderator of our Presbyterian General Assembly, and ignoring the sentiments of most of God's global community, our country has toppled Hussein and devastated a country, the very first time our nation has ever engaged in preemptive strikes against an enemy. And post-war Iraq is a tinderbox. All the wh…