Refusing to recognize positive Iraqi moves discourages further cooperation and drives a wedge between America and other members of the U.N. Security Council.
The attorney general has been discouraging such cooperation with the media, and zoo officials declined in the name of protecting the right to privacy of the dead animals.
First, they discourage cooperation with American forces, creating precisely the kind of fear that made the police reluctant to aid the Americans in the first place.
But he added that any "changes in a policy that would discourage cooperation would not be good, in our perspective."
He concluded that their imprisonment was apparently designed "to intimidate Palestinian lawyers" and discourage cooperation between them and Israeli lawyers and academics.
The constitution discouraged executive-legislative cooperation on policy, but it did not prevent the give and take of patronage.
But many teachers have denounced that proposal, saying it would divide teachers against one another and discourage cooperation among teachers.
One held that the suspension was the "kind of message" that discourages cooperation with investigators.
He views the Soviet power as an enemy, and discourages cooperation with the authorities.
Ms. Weingarten and many education experts say such a system is divisive and discourages cooperation among teachers.