come on lads!

Hint: sport

"Umm, Carthage fell over two thousand years ago."
Depends on what Carthage you mean!

But indeed, I won't let the white city fall!
ermm..

Hint: playwright

"It does when it's done to the extent of the US and your power reaches to the extent of America's."
I still disagree. An empire is more than a primal power. An empire revolves around a solid position (his position shouldn't be contested) with charisma that inspires an entire nation and above all that person should represent all of what the nation (as in people) believes in. America is nothing of that kind..

"The British Empire reached its peak in the 1880s from centuries of incremental steps. Then decades later it was in decline. Likewise, the American Empire was an empire for a longer time but did not reach its peak until after WW2 as you correctly said."
erm.. 200 years > 60 years, or 90 at the very most (the USA is not to be considered a prime worldpower before WWI).

"Of course. But America's periphery extends further than other core countries."
There isn't an american core, that's my point. There's a Western core, but that's it...

"That too. The good thing is that the Europeans are our buddies."

Agreed.

Not in a million years lad...

Chris, what about "when johnny comes marching home again"?

Everyone knows that song now (thanks to Dr. Strangelove), it has history and it's quite fitting for a militaristic country like the USA.. It doesn't have any sensible words in it, but I consider that to be a bonus..

For those who don't know it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZhHdKmKXqA

And ARFeh, you nationalist pigs
Shut up and assimilate!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ggvWvwsUFk (don't mind the crap pictures)

to...

http://imgur.com/9G9BS.jpg

correct!

http://imgur.com/9ESUW.jpg

http://imgur.com/9EHA8.jpg

Girls in Hawaii - Catwalk

"I just thought it took far too much free time and in many cases an unjustified ego and a false sense of worth."

You forgot about cheesecake! Never start playing IC without abundant cheesecake..