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That is absurd. If you believe that the Taliban should have expel al-Qaeda out of Afghanistan, then you should have reasoned out that such action could not have come unless the US have been negotiating with the Taliban for years, more like a decade, to try to get that action done. So there is no 'knee-jerk' reaction about it.
Mullah Omar was keen on seeing to it that charges be brought in writing against OBL and that he be tried in an Islamic court to determine his guilt. The Americans rubbished and ridiculed this demand.
to think that EVERYTHING was honky-dorie between Mullah Omar and the Arab figters is a huge error, factually incorrect. In fact there were many times where he publicly scolded them; he felt that they were becoming too powerful for their boots and too influential. It was never Mullah Omar's intention for Afghanistan to be used as a proxy battlefield. Yes, he (as well as Hekmatyar, Massoud and all the other top figureheads of the anti soviet mujahideen) did take aid and weapons from USA/UK/Saudi/Pakistan/Iran etc. meaning that they did allow Afghanistan to become a proxy battlefield (for a noble and just cause).
However, Mullah Omar did feel that his very power was being compromised by these ragtag Arab fighters. In those days, Osama wasn't bouncing checks just yet --he was still their prized cash cow. Their ATM dispensary. Osama had global ambitions. Mullah Omar and the taleban had a very Afghan-centric agenda. They are fiercely patriotic people, though their past human rights record (especially with regard to women) were about as abysmal as the northern alliance --which NATO would later support and prop up at the expense of Afghanistan's Pakhtun population.
the invasion of Afghanistan was a knee-jerk reaction. Alternate means could have been employed to isolate the taleban from al qaeda and al qaeda-sympathetic elements in Afghanistan. 15 of the 19 terrorist hijackers, incidentally, were Saudi Arabian nationals. None of the hijackers were Afghans, none of the terrorists affiliated with the terrorist plot were Aghan nationals.