I personally strung up thirty-five Filipinos without trial, so what was all the fuss over Waller's "dispatching" a few "treacherous savages"? If there had been more Smiths and Wallers, the war would have been over long ago. Impromptu domestic hanging might also hasten the end of the war. For starters, all Americans who had recently petitioned ( Read more... )

from "Apocalypse Now & Then," by Theodore S. Gonzalves, August 2004....What was claimed at first to be a war of liberation (the Philippines from Spain), soon dissolved seamlessly into a campaign of colonization. More than 4,000 Americans died with another 2,800 wounded. Conservative estimates put the Filipino casualty rate at more than 20,000 ( Read more... )

Does this man look like a monster?

TaftEverything seems to keep coming back to the Philippines, that forgotten war, one way or another - even back in those days, there were two sorts of anti-Imperialists, the ones like Twain who believed in liberty and the brotherhood of man, and the ones who were the equivalents of Pat Buchanan a hundred years ( Read more... )