Is the war on terror turning against the lives of those whose governments pursue it?

I've had an increasingly troubled sense in the last few years that the War on Terror was itself becoming a war of terror, not only in Afghanistan and Pakistan but with global reach, including the citizens of those whose governments avidly pursue it. So it was with interest that I came upon the short essay I attach below by the English journalist and playwright Victoria Brittain, who used to edit the Guardian and whose most recent book, just out, is Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror. 

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175657/tomgram%3A_victoria_brittain%2C_fighting_a_global_war_of_terror/#more