ONE PREDICTION for the year:
"Leadership means telling people what they don't want to hear. It's not just possible there will be a terrorist attack this coming year that is equal to or greater than the horror of 9/11/01. It's probable. It's not just possible that.. the vilest weapons (will be unleashed) in the coming war. It's probable. My own view is that this year is probably going to be an awful one: full of death and conflict and struggle and because of them, economic distress. I think the era of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of evil, stateless men is imminent; and that things will likely get a lot worse before they get better. I sure hope I'm wrong, and that in a year's time I'll look back on this and wince. But..."
Andrew Sullivan