Treating all bad actors just the same might be fine if you are a judge or a prosecutor, but as a dispenser of scarce military resources it is recipe for disappointment, if not defeat. ]
But we don't treat them all the same. The squeakiest wheel will always get greased, first. The others must wait their turn. We will be along to dispense justice to them in due course.
Good point, don't know why the writer didn't observe this fact.