Robin Cook's Resignation
From BBC News:
...History will be astonished at the diplomatic miscalculations that led so quickly to the disintegration of that powerful coalition [against terrorism].The US can afford to go it alone, but Britain is not a superpower.
Our interests are best protected not by unilateral action but by multilateral agreement and a world order governed by rules.
Yet tonight the international partnerships most important to us are weakened: the European Union is divided; the Security Council is in stalemate.
Those are heavy casualties of a war in which a shot has yet to be fired....
the speech can be read in its entirety here....