Is it time for the web to morph into a grid?

With a third fiber bundle in the middle east now damaged, disaster has struck a huge portion of the world’s population, and the entire planet will feel the effects.

quoting GigaOm (click here for a map): The fact that a pair of central Internet paths are just 2 km apart should serve as a cautionary tale as to just how fragile the Internet can be.TeleGeography, a company that tracks cable capacity, said the two cables “account for the majority of international communications capacity between Europe and the Middle East.” With both cables cut, capacity has been reduced by 75 percent to only 620 Gbps. The cables also carry a considerable amount of traffic bound for India and Pakistan.

We have a real world demonstration of what could happen just as easily in more developed parts of the world. Lest we forget, most of the traffic in the US is carried beneath highways, and alongside rail tracks and pipelines. This means a construction crew more likely to create catastrophe than either a natural disaster or act of terror.
I believe that it would benefit all parties concerned to at least explore the idea of a world wide grid. Not that it would have totally taken up the slack from 3 points of failure in the same general area, but there would still be access for more people, and a faster recovery. If a creative politico could devise a way to create a more competitive business environment for backbone bandwidth, this would happen quickly.