RileyDove
as much as I am all for the complete destruction of ISIL in Ar Raqah, there are many civilians there too, all of whom have nowhere else to go.
We are carrying out this campaign to defeat and destroy ISIL in Ar Raqah, not kill every living human being in the areas under ISIL's control.
This air campaign has managed to halt the spread of ISIL. A continued campaign of surgical air strikes backed by SF on the ground and Iraqi security forces will start to have a detrimental effect on ISIL, their leadership and hopefully its recruitment. Killing every man, woman and child by carpet bombing towns and cities will have the opposite effect.