Washington decision makers are war gaming global guerrilla disruption scenarios. This type of gaming is just the tip of the iceberg...
WP. The United States would be all but powerless to protect the American economy in the face of a catastrophic disruption of oil markets, high-level participants in a war game concluded yesterday... The exercise began with ethnic unrest in Nigeria, leading to the collapse of the oil industry in that west African nation. Then al Qaeda launched crippling attacks on key energy facilities in Valdez, Alaska, and Saudi Arabia. But the war game's participants -- including former CIA director R. James Woolsey, former Marine Corps commandant Gen. P.X. Kelley and former EPA administrator Carol Browner, soon realized the U.S. government had few options in the short term to prevent an economic crash in this country and worldwide.
The question that is never asked, never mind answered, in that article (and others) is: "who profits from this scenario?" Our energy policies are almost suicidally shortsighted. Who profits?
Posted by: Greg White | June 29, 2005 at 12:22 PM