Which is one of the reasons for the shift in US politics from treating combatants as combatants. Terrorism is now just a word for anyone who disagrees with us.

Which is one of the reasons for the shift in US politics from treating combatants as combatants. Terrorism is now just a word for anyone who disagrees with us. Whereas acknowledging the organization as a hostile state within an established state means that we have to actually treat it like a war, or treat the combatants like criminals and put them on trial. The term "terrorist" is now just a label that gets applied to anyone who is too inconvenient to treat as a criminal.