What's the quote exactly? I think I may know what you're talking about, and I believe the context is refering to orbital support for people who aren't otherwise terribly useful as drifting ashes, a.k.a whoever they're trying to support.
In any case, cherry picking specific incidents to support your argument is no less intellectually dishonest then say, warsies snipping from ICS, or somebody getting ST firepower yields from the piddly bombardment in First Contact.