Originally Posted by Enemator

Yawn...Alexander the Great, Genghis Kahn, an multitude of Roman emperors claimed the same thing. And a bunch of others too.

And they WERE for some time. But all those empire crumbled and fell. So can you guarantee me that it won't happen for the US? And why wouldn't it happen now? It has to happen at SOME point.

Look at the big scheme of things and over a timeline of 10.000 years. You'll see not a SINGLE empire from the old days is still around and just as powerfull.