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“Then the male goat magnified himself exceedingly. But as soon as he was mighty, the large horn was broken; and in its place there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven.”
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This prophecy is followed by the pronouncement that it is a prophecy of the last days. Keep reading and I believe you will find that out of one of the four countries that come about after the breakup, comes the Antichrist.

The angel saying that the prophecy is of the last days, and the male goat coming from the west over the surface of the whole earth without touching the ground has always intrigued me. Will we see the breakup of the US into four parts and out of one of these will come the world dictator? Only G_d knows.

I do not understand nor have seen anywhere the US is in biblical prophecy. Eschatology has always been my hobby of sorts and I could be wrong but I've not sen/read anything about America. This parsha of Daniel has been agreed by many scholars to be of Alexander the Great and his dividing after death to the "strong." Granted:

The angel saying that the prophecy is of the last days, and the male goat coming from the west over the surface of the whole earth without touching the ground has always intrigued me

it's intriguing but Alexander the Great moved so speedily conquering especially Persia/Elam's one million man army this could be an idiom.

I have not studied all of Daniel in Hebrew and eschatolgy is fun but it divides a lot of Christians. I disagree on this but I hope we can pray that G!D reveals the true meaning

http://www.biblestudytools.com/daniel/8-5-compare.html

http://executableoutlines.com/dan/dan_08.htm

Correct me if I'm wrong but you tend toward this? maybe not exactly but similar?( see below):

http://www.theopenscroll.com/dan8.htm

This shows the hebrew and Paleo-Hebrew transliterations. All say "he touched not the ground" so no idiom, but what does this mean? Did the conquerer move speedily upon the earth as if their feet touched not the ground or literal as with airplanes? Does this exegesis fit the rest of the scripture? I'll refer to Acts 17:11 and study this more but to me it's a very broad leap to consider America in scripture( Just my opinion):

http://www.hebrewoldtestament.com/B27C008.htm