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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....