First off, ISIS does not recognize the Geneva Convention.

Second, carpet bombing is only illegal when there is the "indiscriminate" bombing of areas which have no specific military target, or the indiscriminate bombing of innocent civilians.

We have used carpet bombing in every war until 1977, but the only "indiscriminate" use of bombing was during WWII in Japan when we used atomic bombs.

In every war there will be collateral damage. The Britts lost to us because they wanted to fight an honorable war against us, and we used guerrilla warfare against them. In Vietnam we had firing sectors where we were allowed to shoot in one direction but not in another direction. Then we had areas where we could only fire if fired upon. And some areas where we could not even fire back when fired upon. You can't fight a war like that. Vietnam was lost because of politicians running the war, not the generals. Pacifists believe that you can win wars with words. ISIS does not respect anything but power. They do not respect words and will laugh at what they perceive as weakness when we bore them with words. They are fanatics and would just as soon cut the heads off anyone that doesn't believe as they do. Similar to liberals, only liberals believe in talking one to death if you don't believe as they do.

The reason we will continue to lose wars is because our military are constantly scrutinized by the media and controlled by politicians. Take the media out of the war zone, allow the military to do their job and we will win with less casualties. American citizens do not need to know how the sausage is made.