The Politics of US Occupation

The documentary exposed what unfeignedly happened in the Philippines during the the Statesn pedigree. It highlighted, nigh specially, the political and historic issues during the time.\n strange to what our textbooks on Philippine annals say, the American occupation was far-off from unruffled. thither was violence in all forms burning of villages, massacres and profane of women. However, these were non all of the atrocities did by the Americans during that time. There was the method of weewee cure a pacification method of the Americans, non whole to gain information, but it was athe likes of a form of strain towards the Philippines showing of what could happen if they see to rebel against the American occupation. \na nonher(prenominal) issue was that of the misleading historical background of the strong ties between the Philippines and America. The ties between the two countries were in reality established during the Philippine-American war of 1899, and non the Secon d World War. Thus, whenever the American occupation would be menti bingled to the Filipino people that lived during that time of turmoil, it would propel a traumatic stirred up response because of the anomalies that took place during that period. \nThis may be unknown to just about Filipinos, but Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. president at that time of the American occupation in the Philippines, congratulated an American general for the massacres that took place in the Philippines. No, the massacres were not to create a peaceful Philippine America birth; 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 tall(prenominal) time to shoot the Filipinos like rabbits . \nAnother issue in question was the legal ity  of body of water boarding or the water...