Always assuming, of course, that they are the enemy. I think the recent history of Afghanistan demonstrates that most Afghanis aren't Taliban -- the Taliban just happen to be on top for the moment in the multi-sided civil war that seems always to be going on there.
The calculus here -- which I think is correct -- is that we can show ourselves as opposed to the Taliban, but not Afghanistan as a country. This cuts off the Taliban's access to the "it's us vs. them, so we've got to stick together" gambit.