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Originally Posted by Drake Dun
The White House disregarded potentially serious offers for negotiation to hand over bin Laden peacefully. What we got instead was a war - and no bin Laden.
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There was really only one serious offer; that being to hand him over to Pakistan to stand trial. Pakistan, not the US, rejected that offer. That wasn't the US' right to overstep a sovereign nation in acceptance of using their court system to put this guy on trial. The other offers were, of course, not serious, as they included putting Bin Laden on trial there in Afghanistan, which was an outright insult to the intelligence of the world community.
The White House gave several VERY clear ultimatums that the Taliban did not want to comply with. Ultimatums like shutting down all terror camps, including ones that hosted groups destabilizing neighboring countries and regional players (such as China, Russia, Uzbekistan, and many, many, many more). The meager/attempted overtures they made weren't even bare minimum to fixing or even addressing the problems that 9/11 really brought to the spotlight.
They wanted to keep on exporting Jihad to every country around the world, not realizing that's gonna be a major no-no in a post 9/11 world when all of the guns are trained on them.