Sorry Bill - "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" is the same kind of statement as "one man's drunk driver is another man's joy rider". Joy riders may be drunk or sober, drunk drivers can be driving a stolen car or their own car. The two categories just aren't co-terminous.

What's essentially meant by that cliche is something like "One man's armed insurgentis another man's freedom fighter ", which would be a meaningful sentence, and a true one.

Some of the things done by armed insuyrgents/freedom fighters - call them what you will - are terrorist acts, some are not. The same goes for members of uniformed armed forces.

I'm not talking about people being killed by accident. When civilians are rounded up and shot, that is an act of terrorism, whoever does it - German SS, US Marines, Death Squads, Resistance Fighters. When a building full of random civilians is intentionally blown up, that is an act of terrorism, whoever does it.