The big difference Gaza makes for all of us

'Whatever happens we have got/The Maxim gun and they have not.' 

Hilaire Belloc, who never lets you down.

But the West's moral authority was important - if only for our own self esteem - and it's gone. Whoosh!

Previously we felt the West meant civilisation and glorious empires - more recently morality and freedom. 

Now the West represents nothing much except economic expertise and military force and they are questionable. 

And feminism, non-discrimination and single sex marriage.