The United States offered crucial backing to the European integration cause at its postwar inception. It has mainly been silent when the EU has gone down harmful paths as with the decision to create a flawed currency union largely on political grounds. It has often shown composure when European leaders have lashed out at American ‘hyper-power’ in a bid to find synthetic unity for a European unity project lacking  the  solidarity and coherence which has driven forward the American one for several centuries. American sponsorship of the EU during its difficult formative years is forgotten because it is not in the interests of the EU to give it prominence. No concrete edifice in the sprawling EU quarter of Brussels is named after any post-1945 U.S. leader, (Dwight Eisenhower, Dean Acheson, or John Foster Dulles) who were ardent proponents of a post-national European order. During the Republican presidency of Dwight Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, constant...(Read Full Article)