The Politics of US Occupation

The documentary exposed what sincerely happened in the Philippines during the the Statesn employment. It highlighted, some specially, the political and historic issues during the time.\n opposition to what our textbooks on Philippine tale say, the American occupation was further to the highest degree from imperturbable. on that point was violence in all forms burning of villages, massacres and handle 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 scarcely to gain information, but it was a exchangeable a form of twinge towards the Philippines showing of what could happen if they design 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 truth established during the Philippine-Ame rican war of 1899, and non the Second World War. Thus, whenever the American occupation would be menti oned to the Filipino people that lived during that time of turmoil, it would touch off a traumatic horny response because of the anomalies that took place during that period. \nThis may be unknown to most Filipinos, but Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. president at that time of the American occupation in the Philippines, congratulated an American full general for the massacres that took place in the Philippines. No, the massacres were not to create a peaceful Philippine America affinity; 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 . \nAnoth er issue in question was the legality  of water boarding or the water...