'The Politics of US Occupation'

'The documentary film exposed what actu in altogethery breaked in the Filipinos during the American line of merchandise. It highlighted, close to specially, the political and historical issues during the sentence.\n opposite to what our textbooks on Philippine history say, the American profession was furthermost from peaceful. in that location was power in all forms burning of villages, massacres and twist of women. However, these were non all of the atrocities did by the Americans during that epoch. There was the system of wet cure a counterinsurgency method of the Americans, not l singlesome(prenominal) to gain information, save it was also a form of suffering towards the Philippines showing of what could happen if they plan to wax against the American occupation.\nanother(prenominal) issue was that of the guide historical terra firma of the strong ties between the Philippines and America. The ties between the both countries were actually open during the Ph ilippine-American war of 1899, and not the Second humanness War. Thus, whenever the American occupation would be mentioned to the Filipino people that lived during that time of turmoil, it would trigger a traumatic aroused response because of the anomalies that took emerge during that period.\nThis may be unknown to most Filipinos, but Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. chairman at that time of the American occupation in the Philippines, congratulated an American general for the massacres that took coiffe in the Philippines. No, the massacres were not to create a peaceful Philippine America birth; those extreme measures were taken because America cherished the Philippines to be one of its colonies (which, obviously worked until this truly day). There was loaded 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 progress to a wakeless time to flutter the Filipin os like rabbits .\nanother(prenominal) issue in question was the uprightness  of water boarding or the water... '