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The Philippines, let me remind you, were once a possession of the US and they did not gain their independence until after WWII. They were the possession of Spain and we took it from them, in 1898, in a war that also gave us Cuba and Puerto Rico.
There was a huge debate about what we should do with them. We could have simply given them their independence (what they wanted) but we decided to subjugate them instead, in a long and violent war.
Some Americans thought our presence there would civilize them and make them like us. What happened instead was a humanitarian disaster - that we were responsible for.
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