You can talk reason, logic, ideologies, religion, politics or semantics until you're blue in the face. You won't be heard over the grumbling of an empty stomach.
Satan himself would be welcomed bearing food.
It's not likely they will have "progressed past the dark ages" soon, considering they've been shot, bombed, shelled and mined, almost continually, for the past 30 years.
They're dirt poor farmers, in a tough climate, that have had their crops destroyed. No money, no food, nowhere to turn for help. Don't you think they would welcome anyone that promised to help them?
The Taliban wouldn't let the girls go to school, the boys play sports or the women go uncovered, but they would let them grow their crops. Sounds like a good deal to me, for a family that's starving.
Even somebody as unschooled in nation building as I am, saw this coming. When the US invaded Afghanistan, failed to commit enough troops, failed to seal the borders, let the bullys run off the playground instead of catching and punishing them, then rushed off to Iraq without finishing the job, even I knew this would come back to bite us.
Several months ago,
Michael Yon confirmed it was coming, probably next spring, a big Taliban push to reclaim the country. Does that sound like an organization that's been whupped?