Qatar's presumed rejection, delivered to mediator Kuwait, has not been made public but is likely to have been couched in a willingness to negotiate with its detractors based on a refusal to compromise its sovereignty and right to chart an independent course.
I see us bouncing from one policy to the next, based on our refusal to look at the mess that we've gotten ourselves into -- specifically the killing, the misery, and the devastation that we caused years ago in Vietnam and repeated in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It's an ideology that is explicitly based on a refusal to compromise with squalid reality, and dedicated to cheerleading for war whenever one looks practical, and a rather coarse and unattractive self-aggrandisement of the US at the expense of all other countries (particularly Muslim ones) at all other times.
In setting his policy, however, Goodman is at odds with an American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation that pediatricians work with parents who refuse vaccines and not discharge patients from practices solely based on parents' refusal to immunize them.
But Mr. Shyamalan, who says he has become press shy, offers no apologies and believes that some of the criticism about him was largely based on his refusal to accept Hollywood norms.
Eagle-eyed students of geography will have noticed that Cork and Dublin are different places, separated by 160 miles and centuries of mutual suspicion, based on Dubliners' refusal to accept that Cork is the better city ("Have you heard about the Corkman with the inferiority complex?", goes the joke. "He thought he was the same as everyone else").
"Building settlements in occupied territories was the single most grave error and sin in the history of modern Zionism, because it was based on a refusal to accept the simple fact that we are not alone in this country," he told me.
But teaching equality based on a refusal to acknowledge the complex racial realities of our nation is ignorant at best, and detrimental at worst.
She's polite and well-meaning, and points out she had little choice but to draw the conclusion she did, based on Kyle's refusal to release his medical records, his sudden silence, and most of all by the advice she claims was given to a Georgia-based Websleuths member in a private meeting at Richmond Hill police station.
The stories here are extraordinary: Read Jennifer Collins, a former child "underground," whose mother, Holly Ann Collins, was granted political asylum in the Netherlands based on America's refusal to protect Holly and her children from domestic violence.
