NARRATIVES OF CONQUEST
RENATO REDENTOR CONSTANTINO
Op-Ed, TODAY/abs-cbnnews.com
June 28, 2004

"This question I put to the defenders of this war," said George Boutwell, the first president of the Anti-Imperialist League of the US, in response to America's annexation of the Philippines over a century ago. "What is the end that you seek?" asked Boutwell. "Is it the vassalage of these people? If so, then you are the enemies of the republic and the betrayers of the principles upon which the republic thus far has been made to rest."

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