The 'war on terror' failed on its own terms, spawning terrorists across the world, while its campaign of killings, torture and kidnapping discredited Western claims to be guardians of human rights.

Do you think the Pakistani mother whose child is killed by an American drone cares whether the attack occurred under a Democratic or Republican president?

In the US, most people don't even know that their own military just blew away three young Afghan children. The sad truth is, even if they did know, they wouldn't really care.

Obama continued George W Bush's "war on terror" under a different name -- extending Bush's wars to Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and elsewhere while greatly expanding the war in Afghanistan.

Gillard sends ever more young Australians to die in faraway places -- essentially as American mercenaries -- and more have died under her watch than under any recent prime minister.

Europe has joined with the United States in developing an armed global force aggressively imposing its will on the world: Ask Libya. Ask Syria. Ask Afghanistan. Ask Iraq.

The CIA drone campaign kills innocent civilians and terrorises communities and the UK government is allowing companies based in the UK to profit from the US’ deadly activities.

The reach of the "war on terror" is far greater than its immediate victims in the countries which have been bombed, invaded and occupied.

US drone strikes are counterproductive because they result in thousands of civilian deaths, cause great hardship in the country and drive up anti-US sentiment and militant recruitment.

The conditions to be imposed on Babar Ahmad and Talha Ahsan, who have not yet been tried or convicted of anything, throws the concept of being innocent until proven guilty out the window.

The British government may be complicit in unlawful drone bombings, which in Pakistan alone since 2004 have killed up to an estimated 3,337 people, among them hundreds of civilians.

Assange's prime fear of extradition should be redressed by negotiations between Ecuador, Sweden and the UK to assure that he can go to Sweden while having his rights protected.

The US military now characterizes WikiLeaks and Assange as an "enemy", the same designation it gives to Al Qaeda and the Taliban, a crime carrying the death penalty.

For all his insistence at the UN on the role of diplomacy and dialogue, Obama is as wedded to the use of violence as his predecessors, but unlike Bush he is much better at concealing it.

If this report reminds us all what the US – with British support – is doing, maybe then there will be less surprise at the hatred the drone war is engendering in the Islamic world.

While the US government tells Americans that the huge cost of the country's militarism is "protecting" them from harm, the evidence is that it is making them more vulnerable and less safe.