The Politics of US Occupation

The docudrama exposed what re all(prenominal)y happened in the Filipinos during the American line of business. It highlighted, most specially, the political and historical cuts during the judgment of conviction.\nContrary to what our textbooks on Philippine history say, the American occupation was far from peaceful. thither 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 cartridge holder. at that status was the method acting of water bring to a counterinsurgency method of the Americans, not only to draw information, that it was also a form of torture towards the Filipinos presentation of what could happen if they plan to go up against the American occupation. \n other issue was that of the misleading historical ambit of the strong ties amid the Philippines and America. The ties between the two countries were actually completed during the Philippine-American war of 1899, and not the entropy World War. Thus, whenever the American occupation would be mentioned to the Filipino good deal that lived during that time of turmoil, it would trigger a traumatic emotional retort 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 general for the massacres that took place in the Philippines. No, the massacres were not to shape a peaceful Philippine America relationship; those uttermost(a) measures were taken because America valued the Philippines to be one of its colonies (which, plain worked until this very day). There was big(a) discrimination of the Filipinos: the Americans did not go out the Filipinos as equals and called them niggers ; and because of this, the Americans did not shit a hard time to shoot the Filipinos like rabbits . \nAnother issue in move w as the legality  of water boarding or the water...