The politicians wearing red flowers on Remembrance Day have cheerfully authorised the decimation of jobs, welfare and public education to defend Britain's military spending and nuclear arsenal.

The more the US kills and kills and kills, the more people there are who "want to harm us" - that's the logic that has resulted in a permanent war on terror.

It is well known that the US used depleted uranium weapons in Iraq during the 1991 Gulf war; and Iraqis, at least, are well aware of the increases in cancers and infant mortality rates.

Official who monitors counter-terrorism for the UN says US drone strikes in Pakistan – where those helping victims of earlier attacks or attending funerals were killed – may amount to war crimes.

If the killings continue at the present rate, another 100 British soldiers and untold Afghans will die in this pointless operation before final withdrawal planned for 2014.

David Lawley-Wakelin has been charged under the public order act 1986 for using threatening abusive or insulting words or behavior that may have caused someone harassment, alarm or distress.

Whatever the views of the politician at the top, the US empire is a system, not a policy, underpinned by corporate and military interests and almost every president has sanctioned military action.

What enables one of America's most celebrated pundits to go on the most mainstream of TV programs and coldly justify the killing of 4-year-olds, without so much as batting an eyelash?

Why, you may well ask, should politicians, military men and corporations make these decisions in such secrecy when we will all live with them in the decades to come?

How to justify continuing a war going nowhere and the pointless 'sacrifice' of UK soldiers. Simple: confine the troops to barracks and use 'risk-free' unmanned drones to kill Afghans.