Let's talk about the greatest threats to America.

But before we do that, let's look back a little bit because there are some historical stories that I think about, like ones that stand out in my mind,

empires don't last forever. No matter how big and powerful they were, you know about the Assyrians.

You, of course, have heard about them. Maybe you read about them in the Bible, or if your history

teacher was worth anything, they taught you about this powerful, powerful

civilization that ruled everything with an iron fist in their area for a while. And then there's

this famous story hundreds of years later. Greeks, a Greek army was on the run. I won't go into the

details.

And they're in the middle of nowhere.

That's what they thought.

In the middle of nowhere and they came across this gigantic city.

Walls and everything, only it was empty.

It had been abandoned in a Syrian city.

And they just had to take it in that there was some ancient society so powerful and now gone. The Romans, when the Romans during the third and final Punic war,

when they conquered Carthage and they were burning the city of Carthage, killing everybody

and doing all those things.

The Roman general leading that whole thing sat down and wept.

Now, he didn't weep for the people of Carthage.

He wept because there was this huge, gigantic, powerful empire, the Carthaginian Empire.

Gigantic, unbelievably powerful. And he was watching the end of it, and he knew,

he knew, he wrote it down, he knew that would come for Rome one day too. Societies don't last forever.

Countries, empires, they do not last forever. We who are here now, we like to think it will.

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