Bush Bashers

The William F. Buckley of “God and Man at Yale” will always be my hero. He taught me that the things I know in my heart can be defended in the academy. But he has grown soft with age and now fails to discern that communism was only one manifestation of the loss of freedom and squelching of the human spirit imposed via globalism, centralization, elitism and rationalism. His support of George Bush and attack on Pat Buchanan (“Bush Bashers on Right Need to Think Again,” Column Right, Feb. 23) was a timid, compromise of the values he once championed alone with great courage.

Bush and Buckley do not understand what Pat Buchanan knows in his heart--that the American people care more about the values of community, localism and neighborhood than they do about America’s so-called obligation toward other nations on behalf of “democratic capitalism.” There is an inherent contradiction between less government and more involvement in global affairs. The American people have made plain their preference for the former.

TOM BLAIR, San Pedro