yes, but a very short-term solution... because when you kill "non-insurgents", you automatically produce MORE "insurgents",, because now you've turned their friends and relatives into "insurgents"...
War games... sometimes the only way to win is, not to play
The troops are being told to "shoot first and ask questions" later. The difference between living and dying can be a fraction of a second. That is why civilians always take the worst of any war.