“The part that I didn’t like was bombing the crap out of civilians there because we couldn’t safely fly low enough to hit military targets with any effectiveness.”
True, but hasn’t one of the main criticisms for every war since Vietnam been that our rules of engagement are too limited to achieve victory?
We need to realize that if we are going to use the military to enforce our aims that people are going to die. Including innocents. Pretending otherwise is a fiction that leads to long drawn out wars that are more costly.
And innocent civilians are still going to die in wars regardless of the care taken to minimize it.
Videos of Russian precision bombing in Ukraine are amazing.