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The Philippine War     I dont deliberate the Philippine War was justified. There are more ship canal than contend to solve the annexation of the Philippines. I agree on just about of the policies, simply not all of the policies, that were in place during that time period.      I guess the war was not justified for a number of reasons. The ratio of utterly to wound was higher than it was in the civil war which is considered one of the saddest wars in this countrys history. In the civil war, the ratio was one injure to five killed, where as in the Philippine War, the ratio was one wounded to twelve killed. the States instead of trying to peacefully resolve the situation, fixed that force was a more potent way to talk and batten down control of the newly gained possession. I would use war as a last result, trying diplomacy first. It was good that the United States was freeing a country from an immoral government, but there are better w ays to solve the controversy of what to do with the new annexation.     There were several policies in place at the time, some which were put into place before the war, some during the war, and some after. The ratification of the annexation process was long and difficult. There were debates as to how to treat the Filipino people. One suggestion was to treat the Filipinos as dependents, and not citizens, like the Native Americans came to be treated. Many of the imperialists believed that the Filipinos were savages and harsh policies would give America control. The anti-imperialists were not exactly sure whether to treat them as peers or to put down them free. I would treat them as equals, as normal people, as they are like everyone else. At the time they might not have been as technologically advanced as we were, and their government may have seemed ill-mannered to ours. I think we should have worked with them to help create a government, quite an than occupy a nd just take over.     An new(prenominal) policy that occurred because of the war was the blossom inlet policy. America had much interest in Asia, and the Philippines provided a door to China. America viewed China as a weak country, and was afraid that other countries might attack China, take over, and exploit it. The annexation of the Philippines gave America the luck to protect china. So the Americans proposed an open door policy, where each country in the treaty were allowed a place of influence, where china had to respect the laws of the countries, but were allowed to arrest tariffs.