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Originally posted by Loknar,
Compared to others we are saints. Look a t the past 200 years, the europeans are the savages not us. In the Philipines we were fighting a guerilla war with the tactics proper to do so.
and for you people who hate your own country, just remember, imperialism brought us to where we are today. conquest has been done since the beginnings of man, why are we held to such a high standard? The Athenians wernt... |
And what were we doing fighting a guerilla war in the Philippines, against Filipinos? Our ostensible enemy was Spain, although we had no real reason to go to war with Spain, but we ended fighting a guerilla war against guerillas that had fought for their independence against Spain -- and then found it necessary to fight for the same reasons against the U.S.
And those tactics were attrocities, not 'proper' in any war, for any reason -- but they were used by U.S. forces who did not even have a 'reason' to be in that fight. U.S. troops later committed attrocities in Vietnam -- another war in which U.S. troops should not have been committed. Now U.S. troops have been committing them in Iraq -- one of the latest wars in which such troops should not have been committed.
Hiding behind the attrocities of others doesn't make us saints -- but preaching about America the good guy does make us hypocrites.