Hyderabad, April 10 -- The fear of the slow erosion of Judeo-Christian civilisation appears to be gripping sections of the West after President Donald Trump backed away from what many had interpreted as an existential confrontation and agreed to suspend military operations against Iran. Instead of bringing about regime change, an outcome some in Washington had quietly hoped for, the United States and Israel appear, by most assessments, to have ended up consolidating the Islamic Republic's position. Many analysts believe Iran emerged from the conflict with the stronger hand.

Had the outcome been different, few in the West would have criticised Trump. The present-day Christian Zionists of the West might well have hailed him in the traditio...