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...lawsuit, filed by his father, John B. Edwards II, alleges that his son sought care at UHS in June 2007, “frustrated because he could not study for as long a period as his friends.” A nurse practitioner at UHS diagnosed Edwards with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and prescribed Adderall, according to the lawsuit...
Arrowood declined to comment further and declined to comment on behalf of John B. Edwards II, Edwards’ father, who could not be reached for comment...
...function of circumstance. George W. Bush loathed what he called "small ball." He saw both his father's presidency and Bill Clinton's as inconsequential and yearned to invest his own with world-historical significance. After 9/11, he immediately began comparing the war on terrorism to World War II and the Cold War - a global, generation-defining struggle against an enemy of vast military and ideological power that would transform whole chunks of the world...
...Pakistan review, puts it, "He's going after the organization that attacked the U.S. on 9/11 and before and since rather than pursuing a vague and murky war on terrorism everywhere." Team Obama has junked the phrase war on terror, not to mention Islamofascism. And the World War II and Cold War analogies have mostly ceased. Even in Afghanistan, Obama has sharply narrowed the U.S.'s goals. While still aiming to "defeat al-Qaeda," we're now trying only to "reverse the Taliban's momentum and deny it the ability to overthrow the government." In other words, we'll tolerate...
...have a tendency to see enemies in the regions of the world that we don’t understand as well as we might as posing major threats. It’s a product of our leadership in World War II and the Cold War. And it has carried over as a big part of the Republican Party’s rhetoric, which tends to view the enemy as a one-size-fits-all existential threat...