Ygelsias so nails it

From TAPPED via Eschaton, Yglesias comments on the deflation of the Leo Strauss worship found at Balkinization. (Got that?) All important, but check out this bottom line:

(T)he current campaign to defend and spread liberal principles against Islamist extremism is being spearheaded by people who neither understand those principles nor have any real affection for them.

Indeed.