No official conservatives appear upset by this. The Heritage Foundation's Dan Mitchell, who has traditionally been tough on the Republicans by Washington's standards, actually argued the budget was a step in the right direction. Neither mentioned this CIA budget increase, which is arguably the least justifiable aspect of the new budget. But it appears that official conservatives will endorse anything that bolsters the warfare state. And two weeks after the appalling budget agreement passed, millions of conservatives marched to the polling stations to pull the levers for the usual crop of lying Republicans.
Conservatism likes to wrap itself in a vast intellectual tradition.
Of course not. The word doesn't apply when the victim is a single territory. For example, Russians were considered terrorists when they bombed Afghanistan. It doesn't apply solely to people of a certain nationality. For example, Iraq is considered a terror state for suppressing the just nationalist aspirations of the Kurds.