That isn’t really a railroad, more like a tramway or wagonway. Those are very old, the Diolkos dated back to the 7th century BCE, and the Qin dynasty had something similar for hauling coal. That type came from Europe and had been in regular use since the 1300's. Wood was perfectly fine for those.

Lot of comments here saying this is ridiculous, but South Korea is also home to thousands of US troops, a hostile neighbor to the north, and Seoul has drills on a semi-regular basis in case they get hit with tens of thousands of artillery pieces loaded with nerve gas shells. Nationalism is a pretty common response to…

Kavanaugh must love being compared to the Saudis. 

Nah I mean he was a perfect VP. Had dumb mini scandals that made Obama look more competent, pretended to be more liberal on foreign policy, so Obama could be “strong” and overrule him, could hobnob with foreign leaders and voters alike.

And to prevent that from happening, the US forces in Europe were given liberal authority to use tactical nuclear weapons at natural choke points, making the the sort of troop concentrations necessary to carry out the strategy you envisioned impossible.

We claimed initially we were bringing democracy for Iraq. The Constitution WE wrote stated these sorts of things had to be approved by the Parliament.

I can think of ANOTHER raptor that would have terrorists shitting their pants...

Yeah, my grandfather got a draft exemption to Vietnam because his wife was sick at the time, and joining the military would have left his family in poverty. It could just apply to both sexes.

Selective Service requires a reinstatement of the draft to be passed for people to be called up. Seeing as how a major emergency would almost certainly involve a draft, this just eliminates the fumbling of looking through a bunch of records. It is fairer, too, seeing as how not everyone goes to the DMV/registers to…

That’s cute that you think men don’t get raped. Perhaps you should look into what the Taliban did to the men of the Northern Alliance that got captured. In fact, I would even posit that men are MORE likely to get raped in that part of the world.