I was thinking the other day about how any action against the U.S. government is now considered "terrorism". I was watching Stephen Colbert who made some tongue-in-cheek comment about the number of terrorist attacks and amongst his list of recent attacks was the attack against the U.S.S. Cole. I realized that most people probably consider this attack a terrorist attack. This is incorrect.

The attack against the Cole may have been tragic, but it was not a terrorist attack. It was guerilla warfare. What's the difference? It was waged against a military target, not civilians.

If we are to believe the Bush administration and the media, then any and all actions against an established government are "terrorist" attacks. But of course, by that definition, the Revolutionary War was a (successful) series of terrorist attacks against the British.

The casualties in the war on words are piling up.