Demidog is suggesting (and I agree) that the actions are morally equivalent.
This is not because he has no standard of moral judgment by which to compare these actions. It is because he does have a standard of moral judgment. And he is applying it in an equal and exacting fashion, as Scripture demands.
The US objected to Serbian reprisals against perhaps a few thousand Albanians (many of whome were militant radicals as the Serbians claimed, though Milosevic remains an immoral thug all the same); we responded by bombing that nation unmercifully.
Likewise, Bin-Laden's butchers are incensed against the US starvation of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi men, women and children (Don't imagine that this is all about Israel -- that's part of it, but US imperialism in the Gulf is certainly a greater contributor to muslim rage).... and they have reacted by targeting tens of thousands of American civilians for murder.
Well, unfortunately for them, the main reason the US government exists is to punish those who murder American citizens. I think that you'll find no disagreement whatsoever from the Paleos and Libertarians that, regardless of how we got here, that punishment must now be executed with extreme prejudice, lest the aggressors come to believe that American blood my be spilt without reprisal.
But once that retaliation has been executed, it does the War-Party Interventionists no good to pretend that it is not their empire-building which has resulted in this bloody wound on the American civic body. We will clean up the blood, and we will kill the aggressor. But it remains a matter of pure, undiluted Foolish Arrogance for us to continually make enemies we do not need.
That is no indication of any weakness of resolve to kill these enemies. Because they are our Enemies, they must be killed.
But it doesn't have to happen again. It probably didn't have to happen this time. We should only make the enemies we have to make. If we make enemies with reckless abandon, they will surely kill our people with abandon, and then we (absolutely necessarily) have to kill them in retaliation.
War is Hell. We should prefer to invite it as rarely as reasonably possible.