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I'll accept your acknowledgement, though it's still silly to me.
I think the technology in modern warfare makes the whole concept of separating military and civilian effectively impossible because we have pushed very hard into irregular warfare and strikes "behind the front lines" by drones, rockets, air strikes, special forces raids, saboteurs, terrorism, and light-infantry tactics. I think the era of not involving civilian populations is now well and truly dead (and was really just a remnant of 19th century warfare).
Being impossible doesn't mean a token attempt should not be made if its the difference between innocent lives lost. Irregular warfare makes it even more simple to do so, because we no longer need literal boots with all their equipment on the ground nearby to respond to threats in a decent time. Administration buildings even less so, because communication is near instant.
Which returns to my initial point, choosing to still do so is making a statement about how little you care about that collateral damage. The US, and I guess all other modern militaries, does it out of laze and self assured superiority while ME nations do it deliberately as shields.