Even if it remains a member, its unwillingnesstohelp shape the redesign of the euro zone and fully engage on new financial regulations would leave London as a taker rather than a maker of the new rules of the European game.
And it is this anti-colonialist paradigm that has guided Obama's courtship of the Syrian, Turkish and Iranian regimes and his unwillingnessto lift a hand tohelp the March 14 movement in Lebanon.