>As to Afghanistan - or just about anyplace - a guy with a rifle shooting at soldiers is a fighter of some kind. He may be a guerilla or a soldier or a revolutionary or traitor - depending on which side you are on. I may be able to respect him, even as I try to kill him. I can at least understand why he may feel he is morally right.
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>But a person who sends a child into a marketplace with a bomb strapped to his body, killing without care as to whom he kills, is a terrorist. I think he has committed a sin against the Universe.
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>I think you would agree.

How do you classify 9/11 if you do it analytically ? Pentagon and White House are targets clearly more than non-discriminative, and the Twin Towers were a hefty symbol of much of the things despised despised by the people attacking, which respect/think more in symbols than the west.
The people on the planes were clearly "bystanders", but casualties to non-combatants happen in other conflicts also.

thomas