AMERICA'S PACIFIC BUNGLING
America's Pacific bungling started with a kid wanting to join the funs
of the adults, the Western imperialists' colonization of the
Asian countries. The kid had severed his tie from his Anglo-Saxon
family at a dangerously immature age. The world since has become
predators' feast. The bungling has continued as a string of
bullying
foreign policies based on infantile, might-make-right ideologies and
persisted
until today as a tradition to preserve militarism in the region,
if
for nothing else, a profittable business.
The supporting roles were played by America's top student, Japan, and
the other imperialists. And the victims were the major
Asian countries. Ironically the top student got the top prize of 2
abombs. Even though history like to remind us the outstanding
events in China,
Japan, Korea and Vietnam, but the most representative but least noted
was those in Philippine.
Had the lesson at Philippine been heeded, the entire Asian tragedy
could have been avoided.
In Philippine, America carried out torture and scorched earth
campaigns.(en.wikipedia.org)
General
Jacob H. Smith's infamous order
"KILL EVERYONE OVER TEN" was the caption in the
New York Journal
cartoon on May 5, 1902. The Old Glory draped an American shield on
which a vulture replaced the bald eagle. The bottom caption exclaimed,
"Criminals Because They Were Born Ten Years Before We Took the
Philippines."
In 1908,
Manuel Arellano Remondo,
in a book entitled General Geography of the Philippine Islands, wrote:
"The population decreased due to the wars, in the five-year period from
1895 to 1900, since, at the start of the first insurrection, the
population was estimated at 9,000,000, and at present (1908), the
inhabitants of the Archipelago do not exceed 8,000,000 in number."
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". Many of
these civilian casualties resulted from disease and famine. Reports of
the execution of U.S. soldiers taken prisoner by the Filipinos led to
savage reprisals by American forces. Many American officers and
soldiers called war a "nigger killing business".
The most damning evidence that the enemy wounded were being killed,
came from the official reports of Otis and his successor, General
Arthur MacArthur, which claimed fifteen Filipinos killed for every one
wounded. In the American Civil War, the ratio had been five wounded for
every soldier killed, which is close to historical norm. Otis attempted
to explain this anomaly by the superior marksmanship of rural
southerners and westerners who had hunted all their lives.
MacArthur added a racial twist, asserting that Anglo-Saxons do not
succumb to wounds as easily as do men of "inferior races."[1]
Well,
if America still can not shed its diaper of Anglo-Saxon root
here in the Asian Pacific by pulling out all America's military bases
in the Pacific, maybe the majority non-Anglo-Saxon Americans back home have
to do some regime change at home.
