Providing financial, technical and, as appropriate, other support to the pro-democratic movement including identifying means whereby assistance can be selectively supplied in the event the situation deteriorates further into full-scale civilwar.
But so long as the government in Kabul has the military and financial resources to survive and America remains committed to ensuring that it will some Taliban supporters will surely conclude that they have more to gain from an accommodation with it than from the resumption of full-scale civilwar.