"World War II both the Britains Bomber Command and the United States Army Air Force deliberately targeted civilians".
When you are dealing with murdering governments that are targeting your civilians, you target their civilians.
Give the other side a dose of their own medicine.
No joke.
Like the V-1 buzz bombs and V-2's dropping all over London were not targeting civilians.
Moreover, the whole concept of not targeting civilians --- in an industrial age where 99% of the fight is won in mines and factories and labratories is absurd.