Commentary A week after Sept. 11, 2001, I spoke with a disaster-response expert about terrorist targets in Texas. The Houston Ship Channel, “with all those refineries,” was his first reply. How to protect it? He said: “You tell me.” In December 2020 Forbes magazine published an article by David Blackmon addressing the vulnerability of offshore oil and gas infrastructure to criminal and terrorist attack. Worldwide pirates and terrorists routinely attack tankers and oil facilities. Nigeria is an example. Drug cartels have seized platforms in Mexican waters. Their thugs demand ransom to return the platforms to production and free the crews. Blackmon is an expert in offshore vulnerabilities. “For Americans,” he wrote, “ … tankers and facilities being damaged or coming under attack seem like someone else’s problems … the fact is that these key assets and infrastructure are vulnerable to water-borne and airborne assault.” Airborne includes drone strikes. The 2010 …