Actually as I recall, the word terrorist is not an American invention:

Etomology:
Terrorism 
From Fr. terrorisme 1798, from Latin. terror (see terror).
"If the basis of a popular government in peacetime is virtue, its basis in a time of revolution is virtue and terror -- virtue, without which terror would be barbaric; and terror, without which virtue would be impotent." Robespierre speach, French National Convention 1794

Therefore all variants terrorist, terrorism etc that are currently being used are in fact a French creation.

In the use of the word, American ironically only followed the French lead.

The word terror first originated in the Latin language. The first recorded use of the word terror was in the 1300's. It has many meanings, none of which originated in the United States.

As the saying goes, the pen is mightier than the sword. A good example of such a pen is the U.S. original constitution. The Christian Bible. The Islamic Koran, and other documents throughout history that were defended to the death literally.

The liberal media has learned this lesson. The biggest failure of the conservative movement is that they recognized this late in the game.
Throughout recorded history, history has been written by the victors. Conservatives paid to little attention to the enemy within. Slowly but surely text articles were changed in educational documents, institutes of higher learning were saturated with Left wing ideology, and the media through that saturation was effectively swung to their favor by virtue of most of the up and coming media types and owners of that media having been indoctrinated in college.

Conservatives face one of three choices now. Get up off the couch and start educating or at least offering a counter view point and fight fire with fire, or sit down and shut up and take the liberal slant laying down, or pick up arms as they did in the original American revolution.

Whichever of the three choices prevail, one certainty will rise above them all. It will be very very very painful either way it goes.

To let the liberals go as they are now, invites utter financial ruin of the country and the inevitable servitude to the country or entities that bail us out. This will effectively make our children slaves to those people, in which case all is likely lose.

To argue and fight back in the war of words will take 20 years to counteract the effects already in place. In the mean time, we will still see some degree of financial ruin, but probably not as severe a case as doing nothing. It will be a full generation or two for the damage to be repaired, and during this time, all (especially the young) will suffer. Think in terms of the great depression if you think it can't happen in the good ol USA.

To pick up arms will get thousands killed if not tens of thousands. This also has severe ramifications. Not only in the number of dead, but in the chance the country as a whole is taken over while we are infighting in which case all is lost.

If there is a fourth option, I'd sure like to hear it as those three pretty much suck all around.