Mass Murder and Genocide Cont.

I'm back! With even more philosophical talk that'll blow your mind.

Last week I used the Holocaust and the Third Reich as a basis for my post... So today, I'll just rage against the US. One prime example of US atrocities is is the Philippine-American War, which was a war between a small country versus a world superpower for independence. (Remind you of something?) The population of the Philippines was originally somewhere between 9,000,000... But after the Philippine-American War, the civilian population dropped by 1,000,000. Want to know why? Because American soldiers killed Filipinos indiscriminately and completely destroyed land and villages. They even concentrated civilians into so-called "protected zones", where disease and starvation killed off hundreds of Filipinos.

In November 1901, the Manila correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger reported:

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The present war is no bloodless, opera bouffe engagement; our men have been relentless, have killed to exterminate men, women, children, prisoners and captives, active insurgents and suspected people from lads of ten up, the idea prevailing that the Filipino as such was little better than a dog... Our soldiers have pumped salt water into men to make them talk, and have taken prisoners people who held up their hands and peacefully surrendered, and an hour later, without an atom of evidence to show that they were even insurrectos, stood them on a bridge and shot them down one by one, to drop into the water below and float down, as examples to those who found their bullet-loaded corpses.

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How is this any different from the detention camps during World War II? We as Americans villanize Hitler for capturing Hebrews and holding them in camps like Auschwitz and Chelmno, while we ourselves have captured others and tortured them.
You would expect friendly fire or collateral damage on the frontlines, right? Civilians getting in the way or accidental deaths... It's not on purpose is it? For Major Littletown Waller, a US marine accused of shooting eleven defenseless Filipino civilians, said:

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The major said that General Smith instructed him to kill and burn, and said that the more he killed and burned the better pleased he would be; that it was no time to take prisoners, and that he was to make Samar a howling wilderness. Major Waller asked General Smith to define the age limit for killing, and he replied “Everything over ten.”

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Can you look me in the eye now and tell me that the US is not like the Third Reich? Can you tell me that we aren't the same as Hitler? After the so-called Philippine-American War (More like Massacre in my humble opinion), the US took complete control over the Philippines. Another country succumbing to US Imperialism...
Many spectate that the war was fought by the US because we wanted new land and territories, and to display our military might to the world; showing them that America is indeed one of the world's superpowers. After the conquering of Manila and the taking of the Filipino government, the US promised to return control back over to the Philippine government and grant them independence. They said that they would help them with their quest for independence by building schools, hospitals, and trading ports in the Philippines; but it was all a ploy to enrich US mercantilism in the South-East. Now to quote something I read in Elie Wiesel's Night : "I trust Hitler more than the rest right now, because atleast he is keeping his promise, albiet it be the extermination of Jews". What has the US done for the Philippines? They helped bring about a war that saw to the deaths of one-sixth of the country's population. They helped destroy the countriy's land and plunge it into a battlefield between Communists and Insurgents. Hell, despite our recent economic downfall, we're still supplying the Philippinean government with money and weapons to fight their little civil war.

Next up will be the Vietnam War... Or the present Iraqi War, y' never know.