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Entry: The Death of American Empire Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_death_of_american_empire#1728 Post contents: Great piece, Mr. Foy, and accurate. To those above who complain that it's only Mr. Foy's version of history, I draw your attention to these three disparate pieces. If you have access to the LA Times Archives or Lexis-Nexis: "Commentary; A Serious Case of Mistaken Identity; The U.S. is not the 'indispensable nation,' as a growing WWII mythology would suggest"; BENJAMIN SCHWARZ. Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, Calif.: Jun 22, 2000. pg. 11. Schwarz was the Literary Editor for the Atlantic Monthly at the time. The second is "Equality, not Zionism, Will Save Israel" by Anthony Loewenstein on Tony Karon's excellent blog. Karon is the Senior Editor for Time Magazine, a South African, Jewish, and lived on a kibbutz in his youth: http://tonykaron.com/2007/06/11/loewenstein-equality-not-zionism-will-save-israel/ The third is far more controversial for its content: Benjamin H. Freedman's 1961 speech at the Willard Hotel in D.C. Freedman was a successful NYC Jewish businessman who broke with Judaism in 1945, and changed his last name to represent how he felt. One of the last interviewers to talk to him before his death discovered that Freedman's father was a co-founder of the American Jewish Committee in 1906. Freedman was present at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 with Bernard Baruch when they were carving up Germany. His speech describes what led up to it and what happened afterward, The link: http://www.themodernreligion.com/jihad/freedman.html. If you search online for Benjamin H. Freedman, you can find a recording of it. Sent at: 2008 05 11