The recent US sponsored resolution on Iran to come clean of its nuclear weapons – is reminiscent of the circus that preceeded the war in Iraq.

The East India Company that ruled India for almost one hundred years, had an interesting policy that was rescinded in 1857 by the British Empire. The Doctrine of the Lapse – was where the Company could swallow up any state under the Doctrine. It led to the 1st war of Independence (The Great Mutiny). The US Policy in the middle east is very similar