[cucubelu]

Most countries go through one or two revolutions before they can define themselves, and the people living in. Syria is going through it now, just as Egypt did and other countries in the region, and just as Britain, France, Germany etc had to go through in order to move forward.
Terrorism is defined as acts of violence based on political ideologies, and just as Spartacus said, one can view it as freedom fighter or terrorism based on where you stand subjectively.

I am not taking any stand in this crisis, but both sides are killing civilians, and history is defined by the winners as they get to write the history books. We shall see what happens.