The American people wholeheartedly support our troops who were mistakenly sent there, but not the initial or continuing irrational reasons for their being there, nor Mr. Bush's unreasonable, stubborn and mistaken stay-the-course rationale for keeping them there.
Argument has never been known to convert anybody to a different method, so if you have your own, stick to it and let others go their cranky ways, mistaken, stubborn and ignorant to the end.
The president has been called too stubborn to admit a mistake, the same accusation that Mr. Giuliani often heard as mayor.
As the CEO of pymetrics, I work hard to bring my passion to life, and I know that this leads people to mistake my stubborn tenacity for bravery.
No one wants to be a spiritual Gumby, but one mustn't mistake being stubborn for being strong.
But his stubborn refusal to admit mistakes carries a whiff of megalomania.
Mr. Bush's stubborn refusal to admit mistakes makes it clear that he will repeat them.
They could take heart from their effort and commitment, and the reality they had prised apart a stubborn defence, but familiar mistakes crept in.
Then, in early January, the outside panel released its report: it was an utterly damning study, which took CBS News to task for the National Guard story and for a stubborn refusal to acknowledge mistakes.
Stubborn close-mindedness often gets mistaken for manliness.
But dismissing others as stubborn, irrational, and difficult is typically a mistake.
