Waterboarding Hyprocrisy

[TwistedTails]

One of the great successes of conservatism is the ability to completely distort history but since you asked for sources here goes:

So your first thought in reply is to attempt to discredit me with a sweeping charge against conservatives?
Fairly typical, but I must admit being called a conservative left me with sore sides from laughing so hard.
I won't stoop to tossing a "Liberal" label on you though. It's a tactic used by those who have no other legitimate response.

One of the great successes of conservatism is the ability to completely distort history but since you asked for sources here goes:

1) The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, 8 Vols (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press) 1951-1954 V254

2) "United States Indian Policy and the Debate over Philippne Annexation: Implications for the Origins of American Imperialism" The Journal of American History 66, no 4 (March 1980) 810-831

3) Eric T. L. Love, Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism 1865-1900 (Chapel HIll: University of North Carolina Press, 2004

4) TR, The Winning of the west 4:200

5) Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad. 1876-1917 (New York: Hill & Wang, 2000).

6) Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Phillipines 1899-1903. (New Havety, CT: Yale University Press, 1982).

7) James Blount, American Occupation of the Phillipines 1898-1912 (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1913).

Along with several others.

Followed by a nice laundry list of books.
Nice titles, but all that shows is that you can manage a library reference or internet book search. You still gave exactly 0 references.

As for knowing what people think. There are surviving records in the forms of: (i) Documented Conversations (ii) Collected Letters (iii) Policy Decisions and Documented Statements in support (for example to the senate or congress).

Yes, very nice use of punctuation, someone just skimming the post might think you actually said something here, But again you fail to build your case, opting instead for some vague references to "documents". 0 documentation provided to support your claims

And what sources/evidence is your opinion that this is revisionist history based on? The fact that it doesn't jive with your idea of what America stands for?

Well, I do have some familiarity with the topic, but my sources are not in question. Yours are. As far as "Not Jiving" with my idea of what America stands for you are quite wrong. I am well aware. You on the other hand appear to be intentionally ignoring the fact that much has changed in the world since the beginning of the 20th century. The world was ruled by the "Empires" at that time. You would have had a very hard time finding a government that did not employ such practices in war. To attempt to make the argument that the U.S. of today is the same U.S. of that time is simply ludicrous. Following that logic we would need to hold the modern day residents of Athens responsible for the massacre of Melos at the end of the Peloponnesian War.

You make several other statements which I consider to be either uninformed, or intentionally obtuse, but I will give you the "benefit of the doubt" and not address them.

Oh, and this thread is still not News, or World Events. It's politics, not very good politics, but still politics.