The truth behind the 'war on terror' is that it is part of Western powers' imperialistic quest to secure natural resource reserves for their corporations.

It was surely no accident that the intelligence chief of Israel was in Washington, for talks at the Pentagon, on the same day that the Israel's attacks on Syria happened.

Of all people on the planet, there is nobody with less authority to accuse others of supporting "brutal Arab dictators in the world" than David Cameron and his Nato allies.

The invasion has almost nothing to do with "Islamism", and almost everything to do with the acquisition of resources, notably minerals, and an accelerating rivalry with China.

David Cameron has elevated the supposed Malian "affiliates" of al-Qaida to the status of a "generational" menace, which he claims will last for decades.

The toppling of Libyan ruler Muammar Qaddafi led to "perhaps the greatest proliferation of weapons of war from any modern conflict".

US, British and other western forces have invaded, bombed, tortured and kidnapped their way across the Arab and Muslim world for over a decade.

Had these Malian rebels found themselves in Syria or Libya (at the time of Gaddafi) they would have been called revolutionaries, received funding, training and been armed by the West.

Explo Nani-Kofi says, you would think that after the disastrous interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, those who have waged endless war for the past eleven years would have had enough.

Mr Quagmire has already reared its ugly head in Mali, in record time and even before French boots on the ground went on the offensive.

We are outraged not by the massacre of the innocents, but because the hostages killed were largely white, blue-eyed chaps rather than darker, brown-eyed chaps.

The echoes of the scramble for resources in the US-UK war on Iraq, and the humanitarian catastrophe which followed, are stark.

William Hague and his government know full well that the successive wars engaged in by Britain have increased terrorism across the Middle East and south Asia.

We should recall that more than a decade ago, Tony Blair was warned by his intelligence services that interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq would spread terrorism.

It is the responsibility of all of us to scrutinise what our governments do in our name; if we cannot learn that from Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, then it is hopeless.

From Afghanistan to Yemen, the rhetoric that the west is not at war with the Islamic world grows increasingly hollow with each new expansion of this militarism.