YID With LID: What The Western Liberal Establishment Doesn't Understand About Islamist Regimes

YID With LID: What The Western Liberal Establishment Doesn't Understand About Islamist Regimes: Jackson Diehl is by far the best journalist writing in the mass media about the Middle East. In a recent column, he tries to find some middle ground between the dominant ideas — that Islamist regimes are no problem at all and that the Muslim Brotherhood is really moderate — and what he defines as a too extreme conservative and Republican analysis.