Anyone who witnessed the vicious cross-examination of Tony Blair last year during the parliamentary hearings into Iraq and Afghanistan will easily understand the dynamic at play in this US/Britain positioning.   There is a strong distaste for military action anywhere in the globe by citizens of Englandistan, just look at the divisive consequences from supporting a coalition in Libya.  Cameron was ridiculed for his involvement.
Both Cameron and Obama dislike immensely their nations’ positions as global police and military powers.  Well, actually, what they dislike the most is the subsequent responsibility that accompanies such historical strength.   Both leaders are much more comfy leading from behind amid the disingenuous fog of complacency.   The consequence.  Israel is becoming more and more isolated.  

WASHINGTON — Britain will add its voice to President Obama’s in discouraging an Israeli military strike on Iran when Prime Minister David Cameron begins a three-day visit here this week, a senior British diplomat said Monday.
“The prime minister is pretty clear that he does not think military action against Iran would be helpful,” the diplomat, Peter Westmacott, Britain’s recently appointed ambassador to the United States, told reporters. “We do not regard that as the right way forward in the months to come.”
Mr. Cameron, he said, supports Mr. Obama’s vow that Iran will not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. And, like the president, the prime minister believes military force must be preserved as an option. But an Israeli strike, Mr. Westmacott said, could “unleash a whole variety of different consequences” and might backfire by strengthening the Iranian regime and the resolve of the Iranian people to acquire nuclear status.
“We are, all of us, concerned about what might flow from a decision to take precipitate military action,” he said.
Mr. Cameron, in his talks with Mr. Obama, is expected to press for tighter diplomatic and economic sanctions, said a senior British official in London. “There’s a lot more to be done to turn up the pressure, to turn up the dial,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the talks with the White House.  (read more)