Torture and attacks on civilian populations are both terrorist actions. If you define terrorism as necessarily non-state, then you have to discard the state sp

Torture and attacks on civilian populations are both terrorist actions. If you define terrorism as necessarily non-state, then you have to discard the state sponsored terrorism of Libya, ISIS (which is in fact now a state), Afghanistan, Nazi Germany, etc. I do not believe that discarding state sponsored terrorism as "not terrorist" by defining terrorism as not possible by states to be a useful definition, do you?