Originally Posted By: Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man

It's all murder because one side believes the other has no right to live. And many see 9/11 as an act of war.


Then they have skewered definitions of the term.

If you're in a country that's at war with another, the entire country is at war. Not just the soldiers, not just the government, it's the ENTIRE country. The civilians are a part of it and they all form the infrastructure that helps power the military machine. It doesn't matter if you don't agree with the war, if you still consider yourself apart of the country and you don't leave it, you still add to its overall mass. These governments represent us; if one disagrees that, they need to leave.

The 9/11 attack was carried out by a group of individuals who are simply well sponsored by outside elements that could have declared war but instead decided to hide behind the Osama figure-head. They are terrorists, not soldiers.