Exit strategy: the Philippines
US President Obama said America would get out of Iraq. Dissent has a section on Getting Out: Learning from Past Exit Strategies. Stanley Karnow, author of In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines, looks at how the US got out of the Philippines.
HOWEVER much their methods differed, the British, Dutch, and French intended to cling to their colonies forever. But, from its start in 1898, the United States meant to limit its control of the Philippines—and, to that degree, the American-Filipino experience was unusual in the annals of imperialism…
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