[JumpCrisscross]

> If you are a civilian and the Taliban think you were affiliated with or benefiting from the old regime, you were and are a target

Governments brutalising their own citizens aren’t terorrists.

> there is a good chance they'll want to hang you

Fair enough, I suppose I should qualify political violence against non-military targets with indiscriminate. There is a difference between murderous revolutionary regimes and terrorism. (One key element, however, being the word “regime.” Killing professors after taking power isn’t terrorism. Killing professors before seizing control is.)