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The US has taken absolutely remarkable steps to ensure that civilians don't get hurt. They do things like find the target they want to take out, and map the pattern of the explosion that will be caused to determine whether the blast will take out second stories of civilian structures. They actually select the bomb that will have the least destructive blast pattern to civilians.
Meanwhile, the anti-aircraft guns of the Taliban, often fired at night at targets they can't even see, do not have such carefully worked-out trajectories.
The Taliban has probably out-killed the US in civilian deaths by a factor of 10 to 1. Meanwhile, the US did another incredible thing - it apologized for the civilian deaths.
This is a remarkably civilized war, in which the technology of munitions is a major factor in the diplomacy. And each night is a new round of bombing, each day both sides get their latest say - not just to each other, but to almost everyone in the world who is listening.
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