Terrorism is a tactic, sometimes a strategy. All combatants attempt to terrorize their opponents. There can not be a "war on terrorism" any more than there can be a war on surprise attacks or a war on amphibious landings. Whether you are blitzing London, fire bombing Dresden or knocking down the buildings and killing the brave fire fighters of Hanoi, part of conflict is to terrorize the enemy. Rebel yells, Highlands battle cries, beating police batons on plastic shields are all intended to frighten and terrorize. We are at war now, the propaganda term is "mission", but we are not at mission we are at war, and there is no war without lies and propaganda. War, spending tens of billions of taxpayers' dollars, travelling half way aroiund the world to kill Muslims as flunkies of the American Empire, creates enemies and they will try to kill us back. Who is a terrorist is determined by the great powers. The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was labeled a terrorist organization until NATO, during their war in the Balkans, had a proxy use for them and then they were freedom fighters. Most of the terrorism is state terrorism when the police, secret police, the army and paramilitaries rape, torture, kill, imprison, spy upon and disappear their fellow citizens. We do business with nations that terrorize their own people.