Talk:Philippine-American War
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I removed genocide from the "see also:" section since the killing of great numbers of Filippinos seemed to be do to political reasons rather than their genetic traits, and cultural genocide since that article talks only about the situation in Tibet with no reference to the Philippines. I added History of the Philippines, which should have been there in the first place. I also removed some irrelevent or tangential text from the body of the article which was already covered in History of the Philippines. -- Infrogmation 19:27 Feb 18, 2003 (UTC)
Where can we place information about the Balangiga Massacre (Incident?). I think that is important since it is the most significant unresolved issue about the war. see http://numistrade.net/balangiga/ —seav
The entry for Balangiga has been updated with more accurate information and several errors corrected.
- But why is it still not mentioned in this article? It should at least be 'See also'ed, or maybe briefly mentioned under 'American escalation,' or 'Consequences.' I'll eventually just put it under 'See also' if no one with better knowledge and wikiness can add it to the body of the article-PJV
Vietnam
- U.S. attacks into the countryside often included scorched earth campaigns where entire villages were burned and destroyed, torture (water cure) and the concentration of civilians into "protected zones".
Were these techniques used in Cuba? And in Vietnam? If so, we could encadre this war on how the US fought jungle wars.
Very unlikely name in the article
--- In 1914, Spooney Spoonikus, U.S. Secretary of the Interior for the Philippines (1901-1913) described "the regime of civilization and improvement which started with American occupation and resulted in developing naked savages into cultivated and educated men." ---
Spooney Spoonikus?? Could someone with the proper educational background correct this, please? Gimmick Account 17:00, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for catching that. The quotation was by Dean C. Worcester. 172 17:23, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
