Clauswitz was clear, LH, and I do not dispute your post in that regard. The difference I think occurs when the deaths happen in war or on a calm Tuesday or Thursday faternoon when people are thinking about supper and a night of TV or whatever.

I guess we can spin the semantics, but terrorisms business is to terrorize. I'm aware of Coventry, the allied refusal to bomb Auschwitz (when they did the Polesti oilfields), the raids on Germany to set firestorms: what you say is true, but that was to break the will of the people in a declared war. It is terrorism, but there is a distinction: there is no war in Spain between that country and any other. That's the difference I see.

BM