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What is going on? If one listens to the rhetoric coming from each side, it sounds like a kindergarten quarrel. It is important not to get caught up in the rhetoric and instead analyze the recent events in their historical context...
However, the issue is not that simple. We cannot judge a complex political problem from a one-sided snapshot of occurrences. Instead, it is necessary to look back at both the history of the past three decades and the context of the past few weeks. The Israel-Lebanon conflict is a piece of the broader Israel-Syria conflict and cannot be explained in a four-point flier...
...must go beyond the rhetoric and realize that the recent occurrences are part of a very complex political issue, not unilateral attacks lacking any historical context...
...this context, it is no surprise that the votes on the two articles of "impeachment" were in logical contradiction. On the first article, that Burton willfully misrepresented his use of campaign buttons as a "freely available resource" to the election commission, the council voted 47-33 against expulsion. On the second article, that Burton had acted improperly in taking the buttons from a student group, a majority of the council voted to expel him. It is hard to imagine how one could improperly take buttons that are freely given to students; one cannot steal a "freely available resource" any more...
According to Anthony E. Wolf, a psychologist and author of It's Not Fair: Jeremy Spencer's Parents Let Him Stay Up All Night!, kids this age are learning to see themselves not just as part of your family but also in the larger social context of, say, the fifth-grade class. One result is that kids try on other families' rules for size...