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.

After ten years, we have never held anyone accountable for one of the biggest lies in American history. Perhaps it would be a useful to look at who benefited from the war.

An official has resigned from the inquiry examining whether British troops abused and tortured Iraqi prisoners because she says it has become "little more than a whitewash".

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.

Military involvement in Syria could be dangerous for the US, but outsourcing of support for the rebels to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies may be even riskier than direct intervention.

So horrific is the human suffering brought about by such sanctions regimes that some are beginning to argue that killing Iranians with an air attack would be more humane.

The west will have to beat a retreat from Afghanistan, the only question, is will it be like America's scramble from Vietnam in 1975, or the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989?

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.