No, we agree it has declined.
But Buchanan's suggestion that we save our nation by standing arm in arm with Islamists is not the answer.
If not appealing to the more moderate islamites to help end the reign of terror, then what is the answer? Certainly trying to convert moderate islamites (whose ethics are by far more closer to that of conservatives than they are to radical islam or America's liberalists) would only enrage and alienate them. By doing so, we've now two enemies instead of one.
If we claim to have a moral superiority - which some have said Christianity has over radical Islam, then our collective goals better bear testament of that claim, meaning we have no choice but to disavow what America is becoming to represent with regards to several issues of late, for those moderate islamites may see an evil in homosexual marriage or abortion on demand at par with the murder of innocents.