US soldiers of the Indian wars were known to shoot women and children with the idea that this eliminated the future generations of Indians-no Indians, no issue about who gets the lands. Furthermore they would generously provide them with blankets in the winter time which were loaded with the smallpox virus, wiping our whole villages. Terror is terror-an intentional effort to kill civilians in order to achieve military objectives.

As to the comparison today, what do you think "shock and awe" means? You think the target was ONLY the military when the objective was to unleash violent destruction in such massive displays that the enemy (and the civilian population) would be totally demoralized isnt terror? A lot of kids were killed and maimed in order to demonstrate how mighty the US military was before we went in. Having troops kick in doors and hand over people for "questioning" to the reprisal squads wasnt exactly a civil thing to do either.

The US may not use identical tactics, but the victims are the same.