How is it wrong for terrorists to kill soldiers?

It is not so much "wrong" to kill soldiers, no more than when a foreign power engaged in war would try to do to us. The confusion here and the "wrong" involved in the killings is that we are not "at war" (in my opinion) with terrorists. The wars in Afganistan and Iraq (OEF, OIF) are wars against states who both harbour and support terrorist organizations, which, at least in Afganistan, was a threat to national security. We were not screaming the same way when we lost men and women of the armed forces because of conflict with taliban forces. No, the negative connotation comes from the fact that these people, these terrorists do not have a "state" they are not a governement sanctioned "military" they are men and women who have devoted themselves to an ideal. And they are fiercly devoted to that. They fight not for a land, or for freeedom but simply to "kill westerners" That to me is why it is so bad, they aim to hurt simply because of where and how we live, despite the fact that some here even sypathize (although not support) their ideals.