I don't know. I think there was a bit of personal vendeta mixed in there from the administration's stand point. There were death threats on both sides of this, before the US finally went in. Whatever the true motivations, it's a lot more complicated than most people credit it.
"Well, as it happens, I wrote the damned SOP," Illescue half snarled, "and as of now, you can bar those jackals from any part of this facility until Hell's a hockey rink! Is that perfectly clear?!" - Dr. Franz Illescue - Honor Harrington: At All Costs
"I don't know what I'm do, or how I do, I just do." - Alexander Ovechkin</sub>