You should be a politician, muawiyah. You reply with a lengthy response that avoids answering my direct question.
Albeit your posts are always more interesting than the boiler plate that politicians spout when they are similarly avoiding a question that they don’t want to answer.
George Washington was a British subject. He was waging war against the government that claimed him as a subject. Was he a traitor?
Ask the Brits. They had a long history of playing kissy face after their various civil wars ~ so that would depend on the circumstances.