with a strong effort to show our military presence, and expand that presence is what ultimately led the United States foreign policy to be influenced, and eventually turn to an imperialistic state. If we arrogantly did not try and impose the manifest destiny ideology, of ‘What is good for America, is good for everyone’, and simply guided the Filipino people to self-govern themselves. Perhaps the expansion would have worked, and not create a foreign policy disaster, that in my opinion, still exists…
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