'The Politics of US Occupation'

'The documentary loose what really happened in the Philippines during the the Statesn affair. It highlighted, well-nigh specially, the political and historic military screws during the meter.\nContrary to what our textbooks on Philippine taradiddle say, the the Statesn occupation was far from pacifist(prenominal). in that location was violence in all somas destroy of villages, massacres and abuse of women. However, these were non all of the atrocities did by the Americans during that time. in that respect was the manner of piss therapeutic a pacification method of the Americans, not only to acquit information, just it was excessively a form of torture to contendds the Filipinos screening of what could happen if they broadcast to rebel against the American occupation.\nAnother issue was that of the misleading historic background of the backbreaking ties mingled with the Philippines and America. The ties between the two countries were actually established during t he Philippine-American war of 1899, and not the endorse World War. Thus, whenever the American occupation would be mentioned to the Filipino population that lived during that time of turmoil, it would knowledgeableness a traumatic emotional answer because of the anomalies that took place during that period.\nThis whitethorn be unfamiliar to most Filipinos, but Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. president at that time of the American occupation in the Philippines, congratulated an American widely distributed for the massacres that took place in the Philippines. No, the massacres were not to render a peaceful Philippine America relationship; those thoroughgoing measures were taken because America wanted the Philippines to be one of its colonies (which, manifestly worked until this very day). There was heavy favouritism of the Filipinos: the Americans did not give the Filipinos as equals and called them niggers ; and because of this, the Americans did not have a hard time to sho ot the Filipinos standardised rabbits .\nAnother issue in oppugn was the legality  of water boarding or the water... '