I have always placed America as a nation that has taken the high road, even knowing our past is checkered and full of hypocrisy. Now, I am reading a book called "Flyboys". It was written by the author of "Flags of Our Fathers" and is a very good book about some airmen that went missing during the war in the Pacific.
Before it gets to their story however, it goes into the history of Japan and its relationship with the US and the events that transpired leading up to WW2. Although I am not done with the book yet, I am very disturbed by the actions of the US in the Pacific around the turn of the century especially in the Philippines. America had a policy toward the Philippines that was apparently no better than that of Japans policy toward China.
Read the book, it has really shed some light on American history that is not very well known, in the US anyway. I was already defenseless as you well know, in our nations history of expansionism on the American continent. I was however completely ignorant as to what America actually did in the Pacific at the turn of the century. Very very disturbing for me to read this book amd the light it has shed on more of our expansionist history.
Anyway read the book it is called "Flyboys" and I can hardly put it down.
Before it gets to their story however, it goes into the history of Japan and its relationship with the US and the events that transpired leading up to WW2. Although I am not done with the book yet, I am very disturbed by the actions of the US in the Pacific around the turn of the century especially in the Philippines. America had a policy toward the Philippines that was apparently no better than that of Japans policy toward China.
Read the book, it has really shed some light on American history that is not very well known, in the US anyway. I was already defenseless as you well know, in our nations history of expansionism on the American continent. I was however completely ignorant as to what America actually did in the Pacific at the turn of the century. Very very disturbing for me to read this book amd the light it has shed on more of our expansionist history.
Anyway read the book it is called "Flyboys" and I can hardly put it down.