Tell that to he Filipinos.
Wouldn't have figured you for a pro-imperialist, I thought you were more of a Libertarian.
So they wanted to be under Spanish control forever? I was not aware of that. Bad things happen with every war.....we do lots of things we're not supposed to do and hide it.
I'm a free trader too, but maybe his decisions were right for that particular moment in time. Seems like they were.
It seems as though the U.S. propsered and wasn't in any prolonged conflict during his tenure, so I gave him an FF.....but I'm not a McKinley worshiper.
The Filipinos liberated themselves and declared a republic in 1899, which the US defeated in a war 1899-1902 resulting in up to 220.000 Filipino casualties, then you got guerrilla activities until 1913, so quite a bit of warfare resulting from McKinley's actions.
Interesting. It's an important piece of real estate even to this day, clearly. Who knows what would have happened had he not taken that action.
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