After attacking over 20 countries in the past 30 years, the US addiction for war shows no sign of abating, with Afghanistan still raging and Syria and Iran looming on the horizon.

Why do they hate us, many Americans asked after 9/11, oblivious to their country's role in decades of coups, tyranny, sanctions regimes and occupations across the Middle East.

This bizarre but very powerful sect holds that American domination of the world, militarily and economically, is part of the divinely ordained structure of the universe.

In the world of reality, the US and Israel have continuously brought extreme amounts of violence to the Muslim world, routinely killing their innocent men, women and children.

From Afghanistan to Guatemala to Central Africa, the United States is engaged in military operations, drone warfare, sanctions, covert 'black' ops and cyberwar.

There is one significant difference between Bush's and Obama's policies: whereas Bush preferred to detain people without due process or judicial review, Obama simply kills them.

On average, one US soldier dies everyday. Not an enormous sum, unless it is your mother, father, son or daughter that has perished. Few Americans notice. Afghan loses are not reported.

Aside from this corpse and the others the president has piled up – there is little else for ordinary Americans to celebrate when it comes to the search for nationalistic achievement.

Obama can joke about his use of assassinations to kill even US citizens, but we are not allowed to see any evidence to justify these extra-judicial killings.

The imperialism of the liberal way may be more dangerous because of its open-ended nature — its conviction that it represents a superior form of life while denying its self-righteous fanaticism.

As the war drums are beating even louder, imagine the situation was reversed, and Iran -- or any other country -- did a fraction of what America and Israel do at will.

Apple has banned a simple app which alerted users to updates about the use of drone warfare, saying: "We found that your app contains content that many audiences would find objectionable."

The Obama administration has declared that nobody in the US government will pay any price for the systematic worldwide torture regime implemented and maintained for close to a decade.

Bombings, assassinations, sabotage, drone attacks committed by the West do not qualify as terrorism as the term applies only to terrorism against us, not the terrorism we carry out against them.

The pervasiveness and perversity of America's global military madness could produce severe "blowback" from any one of the 120 countries where US special forces now operate.

Instead of a check to the corruption of political power, the rule of law is merely another weapon used to legitimize crimes by the powerful and crush those who oppose them.