I follow a few right-wing people on Twitter in an attempt to preserve my open-mindedness and to hear what’s going on in one of the other camps. (I consider the extreme left to be in a different camp from me as well.)

The past week these folks seem to be agitating mostly against President Obama’s measured response to what’s going on in Iran. They keep contrasting it with Ronald Reagan’s “Tear down this wall” speech at the Berlin Wall. So I keep asking them what it is they would like Obama to do about this nascent freedom effort in Iran, and not one of them has given me a straight answer. If they want condemnation of how the Iranian protestors are being treated, he’s done that, and he just did it again today. Do they want Obama to forcefully declare his support of the  protestors’ cause? Because that’s sure to backfire (one way to lose popularity with masses in the Middle East:  have the U.S. adopt your cause). Do they want us to invade? That’s so last administration. So… what is it? What do they want — other than to just complain, no matter what the Obama administration does.

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