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August 06, 2005
Cook's Biographer Says He was One of the Greats, Out of Office
John Kampfner, editor of the New Statesman and Robin Cook's biographer, said "In government" the former British foreign secretary "struggled to meet his own and others expectations. Out of office he was truly one of the greats."
He said, Mr. Cook, "who died yesterday [August 6, 2005] , will most be remembered for his passionate but always practical opposition to Tony Blair's war in Iraq. Both in resigning on the eve of the invasion and in his conduct that followed he restored a sense of principle to a political world that had lost its moral compass."
I, too, admired Mr. Cook for resigning rather than going along with a war he did not think was justified. I thought former Secretary of State Colin Powell would follow his lead but it was not to be.
For more see, "Robin Cook was one of the greats out of office."
Posted by Munir Umrani at August 6, 2005 06:51 PM
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