The Taliban offered to hand over bin Laden if the US offered evidence of his culpability. It was never a threat to NATO. NATO was not defending itself from Afgh

The Taliban offered to hand over bin Laden if the US offered evidence of his culpability. It was never a threat to NATO. NATO was not defending itself from Afghanistan. Libya was supposed to be a UN sanctioned humanitarian op. It got silently upgraded to regime change, which is why Putin publicly expressed regret at not vetoing it. Libya was never a threat to NATO. NATO was not defending itself from Libya. Serbia was never a threat to NATO. NATO was not defending itself from... well, not to put too fine a point on it but... Russia's closest ally in Europe. It is not a purely defensive alliance in any sense of the word except an Orwellian one. All of its military operations have been exclusively offensive in nature.