We often hear from politicians and in the news talk about reasons why we should go to war against Iran and previously Iraq because they have broken a UN resolution or are not complying with the wishes of weapon inspection teams . Our leaders often like to take the moral high ground when talking about human rights and how the wishes of the international community must be adhered to when the UN makes a decision. They use the force of the UN and the security council when they require moral legitamacy to go to war yet they are prepared to ignore or circumvent it when votes don’t go their way. When the west uses the UN to deal with issues surrounding the Middle East they are perfectly prepared to issue resolutions that legitimise the death of millions of children through starvation as they did during the sanctions regime imposed on Iraq. They are also perfectly willing to use the UN to legitim...