Mr Quagmire has already reared its ugly head in Mali, in record time and even before French boots on the ground went on the offensive.

This film is not to be made seemingly progressive or feminist because it presents a female CIA agent as central to the demise of Osama bin Laden.

There are hundreds of shocking testimonies documenting sexual abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners and their families by British armed forces between 2003 and 2008.

The world's leaders have been gripped by a long term and deepening insanity, defined by Einstein as doing the same thing over and over when it's obvious it doesn't work.

We are outraged not by the massacre of the innocents, but because the hostages killed were largely white, blue-eyed chaps rather than darker, brown-eyed chaps.

The film teaches us that brown men can and should be targeted and killed with impunity, in violation of international law, and that we should trust the CIA to act diligently.

The echoes of the scramble for resources in the US-UK war on Iraq, and the humanitarian catastrophe which followed, are stark.

Proper reportage would give stark and unassailable lie to the notion that in order to protect its borders, Israel must shoot and kill innocent men and boys, or women and girls.

William Hague and his government know full well that the successive wars engaged in by Britain have increased terrorism across the Middle East and south Asia.

Sieges now extend to entire countries, they have become the torture before the destruction. And they are not counted in long days, but in long years.