The Politics of US Occupation

The documentary exposed what sincerely happened in the Philippines during the the Statesn calling. It highlighted, nigh specially, the political and diachronic issues during the time.\n impertinent to what our textbooks on Philippine write up say, the American occupation was remote from nonbelligerent. on that point was violence in all forms burning of villages, massacres and call of women. However, these were non all of the atrocities did by the Americans during that time. There was the method of weewee supply cure a peace treaty method of the Americans, non only(prenominal) to gain information, but it was withal a form of bedevilment towards the Filipinos showing of what could happen if they send off to rebel against the American occupation.\n other issue was that of the misleading historical background of the strong ties mingled with the Philippines and America. The ties between the two countries were really established during the Philippine-American war of 189 9, and non the Second World War. Thus, whenever the American occupation would be menti atomic number 53d to the Filipino people that lived during that time of turmoil, it would detonate a traumatic delirious response because of the anomalies that took place during that period.\nThis whitethorn be unknown to near Filipinos, but Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. president at that time of the American occupation in the Philippines, congratulated an American superior general for the massacres that took place in the Philippines. No, the massacres were not to create a peaceful Philippine America family relationship; those extreme measures were taken because America wanted the Philippines to be one of its colonies (which, obviously worked until this very day). There was heavy discrimination of the Filipinos: the Americans did not consider the Filipinos as equals and called them niggers ; and because of this, the Americans did not have a firmly time to shoot the Filipinos uniform rabb its .\nAnother issue in question was the legality  of water boarding or the water...