This is John Batcher, conversation with my colleague Conrad Black about decline of the West, decline of the United States and Canada.

Is it accurate?

Conrad looks at the war in the Middle East, the war in the Gaza Strip and does not find decline,

finds the enemy in fact risking decline.

Here's Conrad Black on what we see in Gaza, what we see of the Western approach to

Gaza, what we see of the United States today.

Yeah, I think, I agree with that and what I would add is the policy difference in the West between

different factions in different countries comes down to those who don't grasp that Israel's at war. They think it's just

another skirmish we've had them intermittently now for decades. They don't

understand it was a premeditated violation of a ceasefire and an assault on the civil population of Israel designed

to be as barbarous and brutal as possible, especially to children, women, and the elderly,

the most defenseless people.

And Israel went to war and they are well on the way to destroying the premier terrorist organization

in the world, and that would be a step forward it would be a

step against decline and in favor of the of the defeat of the forces of decline

more of this later thank you