What's your solution, my truculent brother?
Simple. Find the scumbags and cause them pain. Leave the innocents alone. We are better than them -- we don't target innocents.
You state the problem and the goal very well. But how do we do this?
I have one idea. As I mentioned, we used guerilla tactics on the English and the Vietnamese used it on the French and us. At no time did the English, French or we consider using it back. They, and we, were too dependent on our might and sneered at such peasant, low cost strategies.
Just for chuckles, what if we designated small guerilla units trained in infiltration, tactics and terrorist SOPS, and equip them with our wealth and backed them with our enormous resources.
We've used surgical strike teams before, but we've never prosecuted a war entirely dependent on them before. Maybe this is the time.