I don't think it's a big drop of the scales off the eyes to call it state sponsored terrorism (on our part), the military under the 'W' regime was dense enough to make a point of calling it "SHOCK AND AWE" if you remember. This was stupid in many dimensions, because it pretty much sent the message, "We're better beCAUSE we're bigger and badder" and then it couldn't live down to the message 'member all those big holes we left around Baghdad full of vaporized people who turned out NOT to be Saddam? This is part of how we fomented the insurgency against us.

And it aided the cynical definition: "A terrorist is someone who delivers a bomb without an airplane"

And I think the current administration is aware of it to the extent that it is trying a hearts and minds approach in Afghanistan and Pakistan and getting out of Iraq.