Crude Awakenings"The real story of global oil over the past twenty five years is not about the spillover effects of Palestinians fighting Israelis, or terrorist attacks on U. S. forces in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, or Iraq's stormy relationship with Kuwait. It is not even about periodic small and large scale U. S. attacks on Iraq. Rather, the real story is about longer term developments that have changed the international relations of the Middle East, politics at the