i do not doubt that for a minute.
The Taliban was sentenced to death the moment they signed a contract with an oil company from Argentina to create an oil pipeline in Afghanistan, summer 2001.
They were viable trading partners until then. But, they pissed us off by declining our offer. So, we told the UK and Undia we'd be attacking them in mid-October. Then, 9/11 conveniently happened. Then we attacked them.