War is a public conflict between co-belligerents, where each side openly seeks to impose its will on the other by force. This is always the case, even though the role or justification of one side or the other may be open to debate.

In this case, one side is attempting to influence public opinion for political purposes by the use of terror applied deliberately to non-combatants. The attack in Paris is nothing like Iraq, or Faluja. It is much more like the attempted murder of Malala Yousafsai, the 9/11 attacks or the Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing.

Setting up a false equivalency between war and terrorism is...well...a fascist rhetorical tactic.