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 ::Anon, please see number four on my compiled list: ""The forth technique many American's use to ignore American foreign policy history: Focus on the rival’s negative behavior, diverting the argument from the real question at issue.""   
 ::You are justifying American foreign policy history.  I can show that this is EXACTLY what you are doing by possing this question: 

 ::*If the ""guerrillas murdering entire villages"" was in this article only, would you complain that the murder and starvation of villagers by Americans was not in the article?  

 ::I think the answer is a resounding ""NO"". 

 ::""one of the main sources of casualties for the villagers is the guerrillas murdering entire villages that cooperated with the Americans."" 

 ::""Main sources"" is terribly misleadingeven false.  What was the number one source of death?  Disease and starvation caused by the war which America choose to wage.  Some of this disease and starvation was caused by concentration camps set up all over the Philippines, in which villagers were herded into camps and anything outside of the camps was shot on site.  similar to what happened in Vietnam.   The number two source was probably Americans killing villagers, which the historical record is clear happened.  I could expand this page by dozens, maybe even hundreds of pages of testimonies from the soldiers themselves, often boosting of killing ""niggers"" to their families back home.  Many head commanders  were put on trial for killing villagers.  I am sure Boot never mentioned this in his one-sided,biased, jingoist polemic.  I find it highly ironic that you accuse this article of being biased, and use Boot to show that this article is biased.  (See below for more on Boot) 

 ::Way at the bottom of ""main causes"" is alleged attrocities of the insurrgents.  I say alleged because they were not almost always not reported by the insurgents themselves, as all of the American attrocities were reported in letters and in trials on the American side, but they were reported by a third party: the high command of the American military.  Some of these attrocities were found to be fake or of dubious nature. Did the attrocities happen by insurgents: absolutly.  And you can include this in the article, but when you do, it will be buried by the attrocities of Americans. 

 ::Your complain also ignores that America invaded the Philippines.  So you are sticking up for a military that invaded a country and demonizing the Filipinos attempted to stop this invasion.  Some of there tactics of the insurregents were cruel, to be sure, and can be mentioned in the article.  

 ::I have read portions of ""The Savage Wars of Peace"". Boot's writings disgust me. He is a savage jingoist.  He glamorizes these wars as grand military adventures and portrays many American war criminals as mythical heroes. I remember how he trivalized the American written Haiti constitution, benefical to American business interests, and how Americans forced the puppet govenment to sign it.  Did Boot mention Jacob H. Smiths order to ""kill everyone over ten""?  Did Boot mention the water torture?  Did Boot mention the killing of POWs by Americans (which the Filipinos also did)?  No.  

 ::Anon, this says a lot about your own character and ideology that you quote Boot as gospel, blindly ignoring this shameful part of Ameircan history. A history, if you are an average american that you probably know nothing about. The Filipinos did not kill 100,000-200,000 of their own countrymen. The Filipinos would never have killed anyone supporting the invading power America, if America would not have invaded in the first place.  

 ::God forgive America and Americans like Boot and you Anon. "