The Politics of US Occupation

The documentary exposed what unfeignedly happened in the Philippines during the the Statesn transmission line. It highlighted, or so(prenominal) specially, the political and historical issues during the time.\n turnabout to what our textbooks on Philippine business kindred say, the American occupation was removed from pacific. in that respect was violence in all forms burning of villages, massacres and abuse of women. However, these were non all of the atrocities did by the Americans during that time. There was the method of irrigate cure a peace treaty method of the Americans, non merely to gain information, but it was also a form of pang towards the Philippines showing of what could happen if they visualise to rebel against the American occupation. \n some other issue was that of the misleading historical background of the strong ties amongst the Philippines and America. The ties between the two countries were rattling established during the Philippine-America n war of 1899, and not the Second World War. Thus, whenever the American occupation would be menti aned to the Filipino people that lived during that time of turmoil, it would aerate a traumatic emotional response because of the anomalies that took place during that period. \nThis whitethorn 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 customary for the massacres that took place in the Philippines. No, the massacres were not to create a peaceful Philippine America relationship; 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 gravid time to shoot the Filipinos handle rabbits . \nAnother is sue in question was the legality  of irrigate boarding or the water...