That's not what I mean. I too don't think that oil was the prime motivation behind the Afghanistan invasion. But you dismissed the story entirely on the basis of its lack of economic (and political) reality, if I remember correctly (itr has been a few years since this came up last) -- while there were people pursung it in high-level talks, just like others still pursue the Nabucco fata morgana today.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}