Bevendre

I don’t believe that that was the sole, or for a time even the primary, reason, but I do believe that it was a factor.  The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were instigated by a presidency that was seeing falling support among the American people prior to 9/11, and historically there are few things that bring people together quite like conflict and being able to define a singular enemy.  The events of 9/11 have little to no ties to the countries of Iraq or Afghanistan aside from those countries having supported Al-Qaeda and other such terrorist groups to some extent in the past (The US falls under the same boat there, but people like to forget that), and yet both are rich in a resource that America uses HEAVILY.

The wars may not have directly been for oil, but the evidence leans more towards that being a fairly prominent factor than it does the extended campaigns being for the more heavily publicized reasons of avenging US citizens, overthrowing oppressive regimes (which the US had hands in creating decades prior in an attempt to undermine the USSR) and spread democracy.