It's amazing how every single part of what he says is wrong. The low "civilian casualty rate" numbers come from just assuming that anyone killed who could conceivably at some point pick up a gun was an "enemy combatant," and far from discouraging insurgent militancy a campaign of random airstrike terror bombings served primarily to give everyone a personal motive for revenge and made the very idea of a life without violence an idle fantasy. Like you grow up with the constant threat of being murdered from the sky without warning for no reason, people you know and care about get murdered from the sky for no reason, the only future you can see for yourself and any kids you may have is living in permanent terror of random death, you're not going to care if fighting back increases your odds of dying because as far you're concerned you're liable to be murdered anyways, and you're outraged at the hell that has been forced upon you.