This is the natural result of what happens when a country wages a stupid "war on terror," as if a war on "terror" can ever be more effective than a war on drugs, war on poverty, etc.
That's exactly right. The term 'War on terror' was made to be as ambigious as possible. That cozy ambiguity has come back to haunt the crafters, as, rhetoric aside, there is no clear line between friend and foe. In the name of sensitivity, we've put ourselves in a position where we're not looking the enemy in the eye.
We successfully waged war against American insurgents (the Weatherman Underground, The KKK, The Black Panthers, The SLA,...) all of whom engaged in terrorist bombings, murders, and other attacks.
Defund the organizations and lock up or execute the violent radical element. The Saudi funded mosques and Nation of Islam have both been shielded from the RICO act for now.
"The problem today is that there is nothing in U.S. law (i.e., in the form of a declaration of war) that actually identifies an "enemy" that anyone in Congress can ever be accused of conspiring with."
here is a question for you...was there ever a declaration of war in the Civil War?