@Corwin -- I'm not equivocating, nor am I splitting hairs. I'm just trying to be as precise as possible when using some highly charged terms. "Terrorism" has a very specific meaning. It means violent action designed to achieve political means through terrorizing the population. Applying the term to state actions stretches the definition in ways I find problematic, even if terms like "shock and awe" have very similar definitions.
Second, I don't want to lump all terrorists together. Terrorists come in an enormous variety of organizations, motivations, causes, and idelogies, from FARC in Columbia and Sendero Luminoso in Peru, to the Liberation Tigers Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka, the French Resistance fighters in World War II to the Mujahideen who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan, the Aum Shinri Kyo to the Japanese Red Army to the Brigadi Rossi, the ETA to the IRA... and of course the variety of organizations inspired by Sayyed Qutb's legacy.
Some of these organizations fight or fought for causes that are undeniably just using tactics that are cleaner than those used by most states and regular armies. Others fight or fought for for utopias that can never be realized and did not or don't care how many people they kill in the process, or whether they're killed themselves. All have looked into the abyss and been changed by it.
So, my answer to that specific question of yours is still "no, because America is a state and terrorists are defined as non-state actors." However, I have a feeling that that's not the question you're really interested in.
Had you asked me if I consider Americans to be terrorists, I would have to answer "no" as well, because not all Americans are active supporters of the American ideology.
However, had you asked me if I consider the state/ideology of America to be the moral equivalent of the organization/ideology of Al Qaeda, I would have answered "more or less, give or take a few years in purgatory either way."
And yes, that makes the leaders of America today the moral equivalents of the leaders of Al Qaeda, the foot-soldiers of America today the moral equivalents of the foot-soldiers of Al Qaeda, and the sympathizers of America today the moral equivalents of the sympathizers of Al Qaeda.