I'm Jobhbetsu with my colleagues David Dayood and Bill Rajo of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy in these early hours after the confirmed death of Nasrala, the leader of a terror gang that was a threat to the whole of the Middle East and perhaps we're talking about a scale that has yet to be determined how integral

this is to the adversaries the United States has now across Eurasia.

Bill I go to the big picture. This is about across your

picture. This is about Moscow. This is about Tehran, Pyongyang, Beijing, they lost one of theirs when they lost Nasrallah.

Your measure right now. They lost one of theirs when they lost Nasrallah.

Your measure right now, where is the U.S. in this?

Is it reacting in a fashion that it understands that the strong horse is dead in Lebanon and the adversaries that we have in Ukraine

and East Asia are also on the backfoot.

Does Washington act that way, Bill?

Yes, John, it's a great question and Washington the

by administration has been very muted on this issue and this is shocking

this this should be celebrated and yet the administration just is so fearful of an escalation of a wider war breaking out that has already broken out and all of the onus is being put on Israel to not escalate.

All the while Iran is organizing its proxies, its so-called access of resistance, the Houthis launching strikes and shutting down the

Red Sea, the Iraqi and Syrian militias launching drones at Israel while attacking American

troops in Iraq, Syria, and Jordan.

Obviously, Hamas and in Palestinian Islamic jihad and the host of terror groups fighting against

Israel and the West Bank and in Gaza and then of course Hezbollah in Lebanon and yet it's it just goes to show

John just how isolated Israel has become in the international community when

countries are siding with a terrorist organization and the country, the single country

that should be the beacon of freedom,

the beacon of free countries has basically, you know, I get the impression

John that if President Biden could get away with condemning this strike as being an escalatory measure that he would do it.

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