Letters to the Editor
By Daily Bruin Staff
March 3, 2003 9:00 p.m.
The United States should be a liberator
After reading the Daily Bruin interview with Mohammad Mertaban
(“Q&A with Mohammad Mertaban,” Feb. 27), I cannot
help but respond. Mertaban said “the United States should not
liberate people,” and I beg to differ.
Tell the Japanese, who today are one of the most peaceful
democracies on Earth, that we should not have liberated them during
World War II. Tell it to the French, who to this day honor the
efforts of U.S. soldiers in Normandy. Tell it to the Belgians, the
Poles, the Greeks, the Austrians, the Italians, the British and the
Germans. Tell it, Mertaban, to the Jews.
The truth is not that the United States is an exploitative or
imperialistic power, but rather that the United States is the
freest and most moral country in all of human history. And while it
may make the occasional mistake, it has been and continues to be a
powerful source of freedom and prosperity to all. The United States
should most definitely liberate people. And I can only hope it will
continue to do so.
Robert Johnston
President, The Objectivist Club at UCLA
