[aqme28]

> Also USA is very sensitive about the other side's civilian deaths.

I'd argue that it's not sensitive enough. We've bombed schools and desalination plants.

If your goal in a war is to topple a regime and prop up a more friendly one, then you can't just bomb them to submission. All that does is topple the regime and replace it with a probably worse one. You need to convince the population that the new regime is actually better, and you don't convince anyone of anything by killing their kids.