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Terrorism is a specific act that happens in war. It is an atrocity, often during a war, where civilians are attacked and killed in order to damage the enemy's resolve and morale. So saying that terrorism is less effective at "causing evil" than war doesn't make a lot of sense. Certainly, your typical large battle is more costly in terms of lives than your average terrorist attack, but, since terrorism is an act of war, divorcing it from other kinds of warfare is unwarranted.
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Sorry to threadjack for the moment but I found this statement interesting (I added some bold for emphasis).
By this reasoning, the US committed acts of terrorism when they dropped the nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The allies committed acts of Terrorism when they bombed civilian tragets in Germany (just as the Germans did in London).
Are you sure you want to stand by this definition of Terrorism?