Morally Equating Good and Evil

An actual post from an online discussion titled, "HOW TO piss off every living NEOCON":

You claim that "they want to kill us," yet you are exactly the same as they are,
because you want to kill them. You are EXACTLY the same as they are, you just
attach a different name to it because it makes you feel like you're not a
terrorist, but you are. You are morally equivalent to all the terrorists - you
are superior to no one.

This is a striking comment. This poster sees no difference between those who kill innocents on purpose to further their evil and those who kill innocents accidently to stop evil. Another poster responded with some of the acts the terrorists have committed such as intentionally targeting civilians, recruiting suicide bombers, planting bombs on babies, hacking off innocents heads, the Breslan school massacre, Bali night club, Bombay, Spain train and London subway bombings, etc. To which a third poster wrote:

"How many innocent Iraqi and Lebanese children have been killed by "collateral
damage" from bombing? Do you not suppose that the Iraqi and Lebanese civilian
population view this as an indiscriminate act of terrorism? The US and British
fire bombings of Dresden and Tokyo during WWII, which killed thousands of
innocent civilians, were acts of direct terrorism used to intimidate the general
population in hopes that they would not continue to support the military. Hd we
lost the war, the architects of those attacks would have no doubt been placed on
trial as war criminals. If the american revolutionaries had been able to blow up
parliament and kill King George, would that have been an act of terrorism?
Terrorism is not unique to muslims and eastern nations. A definition of it
depends entirely on where you are sitting at the moment.

Of course, this poster ignores facts like "How many innocent Iraqi and Lebanese children have been used as human shields by the terrorists."

The first and third posters have conceded that they are unable to make moral distinctions about good and evil. And yet they attack Bush as being evil because he invaded Iraq (they always seem to leave out with the blessings of Congress and the UN) and civilians are being killed. And they never use the same language for the terrorists.

So the ones who perpetuate evil and intentionally kill innocents are defended while those who try to protect as many innocents as possible while stopping the evil are considered the truly evil people.