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Yeah that charge will stick.

A "terrorist" who hasn't done any actual terrorizing isn't yet a terrorist. It's not illegal, anywhere, as far as I know, to train a terrorist in any way, unless there are actual crimes involved in the training. It's the terrorism itself that is a crime. Just as we consider it wrong to arrest and jail someone because they *may* commit murder, even if it appears that they are planning and preparing for it, it is immoral to attack another country because someone is inside that country that *may* attack the United States. Rooting out the terrorists themselves? Perhaps that could be justified given the nature of the problem but overthrowing Iraq did exactly nothing to that end.

People in this country used to understand the doctrine of "first do no harm", however apparently we have become so complacent that upon the first incident of trouble we feel as though we have license to run roughshod over the earth with our superior firepower just to get our revenge out of our systems, for someone had the gall to actually attack the United States and dammit someone's going to be punished for it, if not the actual guilty then someone guilty for some other reasons we'll think up.

Perhaps you would like every human being in the world with a disagreement with the United States government coupled with the capability to attack the United States in any conceivable way to be wiped from the earth. Actually, I suspect that deep down you would, though you aren't about to admit it.