'The Politics of US Occupation'

'The infotainment exposed what real elapseed in the Filipinos during the American task. It highlighted, just about speci each(prenominal)y, the policy-making and historical issues during the condemnation.\n strange to what our textbooks on Philippine history say, the American blood was out-of-the-way(prenominal) from peaceful. in that location was military group in e very(prenominal)(prenominal) forms burning of villages, massacres and abuse of women. However, these were not all of the atrocities did by the Americans during that age. There was the mode of piss cure a counterinsurgency method of the Americans, not save to gain information, only it was also a form of gouge towards the Filipinos showing of what could happen if they plan to rise against the American occupation. \n some other issue was that of the mislead historical earth of the strong ties amidst the Philippines and America. The ties between the cardinal countries were actually naturalised durin g the Philippine-American war of 1899, and not the Second realism War. Thus, whenever the American occupation would be menti onenessd to the Filipino people that lived during that time of turmoil, it would trigger a traumatic unrestrained response because of the anomalies that took step up during that period. \nThis may be unknown to most Filipinos, but Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. chairperson at that time of the American occupation in the Philippines, congratulated an American general for the massacres that took govern in the Philippines. No, the massacres were not to create a peaceful Philippine America kindred; those extreme measures were interpreted because America precious the Philippines to be one of its colonies (which, obviously worked until this very day). There was laborious 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 extradite a expectant time to e xact the Filipinos like rabbits . \nanother(prenominal) issue in question was the justness  of water boarding or the water...'