Well they seem to be doing a pretty good job of it, as they have in Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza, West Bank.. and today Somalia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6243459.stm
US Somali air strikes 'kill many'
and
'Boy killed'
Witnesses told the BBC Somali service that an area near the town of Afmadow was being bombed on Tuesday.
"My 4-year-old boy was killed in the strike," Mohamed Mahmud Burale told the AP news agency from the area.
Yet Islamists kill and maim pretty much indiscriminately, use civilians as shields and this is rarely mentioned at all. But this is the US after all, the real terrorists in all this.
On a related note, I have chanced upon a brilliant article; Africa: a key battleground in the global war on terror
"We must learn that a terrorist sanctuary anywhere endagers people everywhere"
Indeed.