Philippines bends over and spreads 'em wide

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
but it wasn't skittles and beer.

Those bastards


the philippine n goverment

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Boshko

Well the Spanish didn't have the capacity to treat the Philippines to much of anything...

Yet they were doing so, punitively, until the Americans arrived.

Also, read about the social divide between upper class Spanish and the rest of the population.

[Ted Striker]

Finally Filipinos love Americans and I don't think this is simply because of kicking the Japanese out during WW2

[KrazyHorse]

If filipinos love americans then why did they kick your troops out?

[Ted Striker]

They didn't kick us out we left dumbass

[Ted Striker]

How come they asked for them back to whoop on Abu Sayeff?

Why is it you don't hear much about Abu Sayeff these days?

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Your characterization of the American occupation of the Phillipines is UTTER CRAP.

Not only that it is refuted by the article you posted!

Um, what was refuted, exactly, by that? I explicitely said the American occupation was not brutal.

But the war did turn quite brutal, and American forces engaged in atrocities (as did guerillas):

http://www.historyguy.com/PhilipineAmericanwar.html

From this point on, the war became a savage, no-holds-barred guerilla conflict made up of ambushes, massacres and retribution. Both sides engaged in wanton violence and slaughter. Villages were destroyed, civilians murdered, prisoners tortured and mutilated along with a host of other atrocities. Many American officers and non-coms had served in the Indian Wars, and thus applied the old belief that "the only good Indian was a dead Indian" to their relations with the Filipinos. This attitude of course was reciprocated by the native forces.

Did you read the last paragraph, particularly this sentence:

What they stood for, although it had its sordid racist and imperialist elements, was in sufficient harmony with the desires of many Filipinos to make their conquest and pacification possible, if not easy.

That's pretty much the sum of what I said. Remember, overall point: occupied nations aren't allies.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
They didn't kick us out we left dumbass

BS, dumbass.

[Sprayber]

I think Mt. Pinatubo had a lot to do with it

[Ted Striker]

The Philippines used to be the most developed country in Asia following World War II,.

Here's another nice quote.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines

[Ted Striker]

1934 -

U.S. approves Tydings-McDuffie Act promising Philippine independence in 1946; transition to independence begins

duh for the uneducated Canadian

[Shi Huangdi]

After our help in dealing with communist and later islamist insurgencies in the Phillipines, this is how we are repayed.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
1934 -

U.S. approves Tydings-McDuffie Act promising Philippine independence in 1946; transition to independence begins

duh for the uneducated Canadian

Duh for yourself. Why don't you explain to me why the events I'm describing which occurred 40 years after this are refuted.

Dumbass.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
After our help in dealing with communist and later islamist insurgencies in the Phillipines, this is how we are repayed.

How about your "help" in maintaining the Marcos dictatorship for 20 years?

And this isn't about the Filipinos having to lick your cocks forevermore because you done edjucated them brown folks in the American way; this is about the Pilippines' actions as a sovereign nation.

[Ted Striker]

Explain to me why they invited our troops back last year?

Dumbass.

Duh