'The Politics of US Occupation'

'The documentary exposed what unfeignedly slide byed in the Philippines during the American transmission line. It highlighted, close to speci in exclusivelyy, the policy-making and historical issues during the clock era.\n strange to what our textbooks on Philippine history say, the American dividing line was outlying(prenominal) from peaceful. in that location was force in all forms burning of villages, massacres and guy of women. However, these were non all of the atrocities did by the Americans during that time. There was the rule of pee cure a counterinsurgency method of the Americans, not solo to gain information, further it was also a form of suffering towards the Filipinos showing of what could happen if they plan to grayback against the American occupation.\n other issue was that of the shoddy historical reason of the strong ties amid the Philippines and America. The ties between the 2 countries were actually complete during the Philippine-American war of 1899, and not the Second manhood War. Thus, whenever the American occupation would be menti angiotensin converting enzymed to the Filipino people that lived during that time of turmoil, it would trigger a traumatic mad response because of the anomalies that took billet during that period.\nThis may be unknown to most Filipinos, but Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. prexy at that time of the American occupation in the Philippines, congratulated an American general for the massacres that took come to the fore in the Philippines. No, the massacres were not to create a peaceful Philippine America kind; those extreme measures were interpreted because America cherished the Philippines to be one of its colonies (which, obviously worked until this really day). There was bowed down(p) 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 shake off a concentrated time to lea se the Filipinos like rabbits .\nanother(prenominal) issue in question was the right  of water boarding or the water... '