Sure. Just like happened in WWII when we bombed German and Japanese civilians.
“Listen, we know what it’s like to kill civilians in war,” said the senior U.S. officer. “Hell, we even put it on the front pages. We call it collateral damage. We absolutely try to minimize it, because we know it turns people against you. Killing civilians is a sure prescription for defeat.
You picked up on the same BS I did. Seems the prescription has done a one eighty since the last war we really WON.