Just playing to the crowd
They just can't accept the fact that we don't fight wars on the enemy's terms. Hell, we don't even fight wars like we did in WWII and they'd better be thankful for that. Believe me, if we decided to fight wars like we did back then, we'd be deliberately targeting civilians and every vestage of their military and government. Those B-52s wouldn't just be carpet bombing the troops, they'd be leveling Kabul and every other Afghan town with every weapon at our disposal, civilian casualties be damned. Nope, we don't fight wars like that anymore and I hope we never do.