Terrorism

Ok so some shitty ass obscure tyranny pisses off some of it's citizens and we happen to buy oil from them so they decide to murder some of our civilians.

We retaliate and the terrorists say "THEY ARE AT WAR WITH US NOW".

We do nothing and the terrorists say "THEY ARE WEAK, WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT!".

If you hate america and love terrorists, even by taking the terrorist's side it is obvious that there is nothing we can do to stop them attacking us. So we must retaliate. Therefore the war to defend Iraqi and Afghanistani civilians from terrorism was the correct course of action.

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That's a rather pedantic semantic argument. In common usage, especially in the West, at this time, terrorism most definitely refers to the combination of political ideology and military tactics. I'll give you that in a formal argument it would be an improper usage of the term, but this isn't a formal argument and it does adequately cover the people and tactics under discussion.

Furthermore, I made no commentary related to the last half of your response yet, so having neither supported nor denied the claims you make, I fail to see how you could know my stance on them such that you would feel the need to tell me I should "read moar".