Whatever Romney's accusation that Obama is 'soft' on foreign policy, over the past four years he has played the same role as previous presidents, talking of peace but promoting war.

David Cameron claims to be on the side of peace and democracy in the Middle East while acting as travelling salesman for the arms industry in dictatorships like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

Analysis of the histories of the almost 200 countries in the world found only 22 which have never experienced an invasion by the British -- but the United States is catching up fast.

It is unacceptable that today, 65 years after the partition of Palestine -- a victim of British colonialism -- the UK has recognised the state of Israel but not the state of Palestine.

Jonathan Freedland's bizarre sense of priorities leads him to attack peace campaigners, rather than warmongers carrying out drone attacks in Pakistan, or bombing children in Afghanistan.

"...they are trying to staff the office with that classic, rotate your interns; get the interns to do the office admin, don't pay them a thing and, after three months, kick them out, get someone else in."

Across historic Palestine - Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza - the State of Israel rules over around 12 million people whose rights and privileges are determined on a discriminatory basis.

One of the most important changes in world politics is that the US has failed to win two wars, one in Iraq, the other in Afghanistan, despite deploying large and vastly expensive land armies.

The sanctions are hurting the same people who we were told were not meant to be their target, in what is yet another case of "collateral damage" inflicted by Western policy towards Iran.

"If a country has sent its young men to another country to die, to restore - create democracy, you'd expect, well you'd expect a bit of gratitude, wouldn't you?" - John Humphreys, BBC