Re:We have more oil? (Score 1)

Why do you think planning things decades ahead works? Why do you think we'd make better decisions than the ones we did make? For example, fifty years ago, we had a good idea about the extent of Middle East oil (it was starting to be exploited), but no idea about how unstable the region was going to be.

I'd have to disagree there. We were well aware of the nature of the middle east at the time, especially the violent and primitive nature of the Wahabis controlling Saudi Arabia. That they and the other middle eastern countries nationalized (i.e. stole) all the oil property, refineries, pipelines, etc that had been discovered and produced by Western oil companies should have been a big clue number 1.

No, you couldn't predict 9/11 back then, as neither jetliners nor skyscrapers of that type existed. However, you could reliably predict that allowing violent death worshiping savages to steal hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth would lead to some negative long term consequences.