building actual infrastructure and gasp impacting the material conditions does a LOT more yes. but, like the idea that the outside powers will come in and save them from their savagery is kind of a colonial mentality if you ask me tbqh. I do think things will improve, for one there's not some asshole bombing every wedding anymore. the occupation did a lot to bolster the Taliban because are you gonna fight the guys fighting off the invaders who bomb your schools? send out their sicko death squads into your village? no, most people want the US gone more than the Taliban, but once the US is gone? where does the Taliban get legitimacy from then?