You may have noticed a page of this blog called “Don’t Look Away” (there’s a tab for it, up top). It serves my Cassandra-like tendencies, which under normal circumstances I try to suppress.

Today, I’m posting a new entry:

Intelligence Chiefs Pessimistic In Assessing Worldwide Threats

Negroponte Cites Resilience of Al-Qaeda, Iraqi Insurgency

Iraq is at a violent and “precarious juncture,” while al-Qaeda is significantly expanding its global reach, effectively immune to the loss of leaders in battle, Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte told Congress yesterday. He also warned that the Taliban is mounting a vigorous insurgency in Afghanistan, that Pakistan has become a safe haven for top terrorists and that Iran’s growing regional power is threatening Middle East stability.

I’m just sayin’, in case people are distracted by other things…