[willyone]

All this is well and good with a feeling of invincibility. However if we keep running a seventy billion dollar a year trade imbalance with the Chinese and continue allowing millions of immigrants with no intention of becoming Americans into the country this will be a short celebration.

[borghead]

America is Rome of our times. The only true republican form of government with the greatest miliary, economy, and technology that the world has ever had, surrounded by dictatorships and oligarchies. Its good for now, but it can't last. Rome dominated the western world for 400 years, but it fell, and so will the U.S, albeit in a much shorter time, since technology changes so quickly.