Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
NATO ISAF sent troops in January 2002. ISAF took command in 2003.
"Deployed in 2001 – initially under the lead of individual NATO Allies on a six-month rotational basis – ISAF was tasked, on the request of the Afghan government and under a United Nations (UN) mandate, to assist the Afghan government in maintaining security, originally in and around Kabul exclusively. NATO agreed to take command of the force in August 2003 "
NATO ISAF sent troops in January 2002. ISAF took command in 2003.
"Deployed in 2001 – initially under the lead of individual NATO Allies on a six-month rotational basis – ISAF was tasked, on the request of the Afghan government and under a United Nations (UN) mandate, to assist the Afghan government in maintaining security, originally in and around Kabul exclusively. NATO agreed to take command of the force in August 2003 "
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_69366.htm#%3A~%3Atext=ISAF+was+first+deployed+in%2Coperate+in+a+secure+environment.
2001 or 2003. Your claim that NATO never mobilized in Afghanistan is false.