Originally Posted by
monolith94
I wasn't around, but I decided it was time to check back in. I'm not exactly a big fan of Trump (although i don't think he's as apocalyptic a figure as some seem to do) but perhaps the best part of his campaign was lip-service he paid to the idea of America not being the world's policeman. His appointment of Bolton, then, was something of a disappointment to me, but I am glad that he hasn't really gotten us deeper into Syria, and hopefully his appointment of Bolton is more of a signal of willingness to use force as a negotiating tactic rather than an actual willingness to use force. The President's use of force so far has seemed to be more symbolic rather than strategic, like that "mother of all bombs" stuff that had me rolling my eyes.
I still have some progressive sensibilities, but I get turned off by the constant hand-wringing and fretting that I see coming from some leftist circles, and as a now regular attendee of the Eastern Orthodox church, a church which historically had its buildings dynamited and its priests martyred by communists, I'm not exactly thrilled by the antifa types. I remember posting on the something awful forums to a militant socialist/communist if in the next revolution, he would promise to leave places of worship unmolested, and the response I got was a simple "not a chance." Now granted this was just one person and not representative of all of the far left, but I think that it is representative of the spirit of quite a few of them.