From Bill Richey, Aurora, CO:

I hit a link to this Web site while browsing around after Googling "Ogaden oil", thus certainly adding another tempting variable in making predictions about future wars. There are so many international oil companies and foreign governments who are wheeling and dealing with governments in sub-Saharan Africa to extract oil, natural gas, copper, cobalt, coltan (for your cell phones, folks), gold, old growth forest wood, etc., that any unilateral attempts by Bush or his successor to dominate this region is a pipe dream. The oil industries are going to squeeze the #$%&! out of this planet in order to make their last few trillions of bucks before the wells run dry, and their stockholders start dumping their soon-to-be worthless stocks. I predict the oil companies will get their way, once again, constructing drilling fields, pipelines, oil tanker ports, etc., in countries where social injustices, genocide, starvation, kleptrocricies, international exploitation of the resources, has decimated what were once proud cultures.