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Textbook apologia. Roosevelt fully supported America’s imperialist ambitions in the Philippines, so you don’t get to shuffle off the atrocities that came along
by bugglebeetle 3y ago
Textbook apologia. Roosevelt fully supported America’s imperialist ambitions in the Philippines, so you don’t get to shuffle off the atrocities that came along with that just because the reality of what that meant was incredibly horrifying. He gave the order to “pacify” Samar and is responsible for what happened as a result. By the measure of his own stated ideals, you can’t divorce his command of the military from its consequences.
- ethbr1 3y agoCan you give me some cited examples?
- alephnerd 3y agoNot about Philippines but he did coin the Roosevelt Collary [0] that the US could intervene in the internal affairs of Latin American countries if they committed flagrant wrongdoings that "loosened the ties of civilized society". To be fair, he was a product of his time, and it could be argued that humanitarian missions can be treated the same. Was American carpetbombing of Germany (killing untold numbers of people) even when it saved millions of Jews and Romas being genocided? Or, using a less loaded example - directly intervening in the Yugoslav Civil War and bombing Belgrade but also ensuring the Dayton Accords were created and preventing further conflict between Serbs, Croats, Muslims, and Albanians. There's no right or wrong answer. The world isn't black or white. [0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Corollary https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Corollary