The US is [ widening its air bombing intervention ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/08/us-bombing-campaign-iraq-obama-isis ) in Iraq. As long as it remains limited to giving close air support to a local ground army fighting in a non-urban battlefield, the harm to civilians will be limited too. If it goes beyond that, it could become the sort of hatred-generator that drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen have been.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_September_2014_%28US_widening_air_bombing_in_Iraq%29