Sunday and time for a little history (heavy sighs and eye rolls will not help)….

We have two wars raging that is being financed by the US and within these two conflicts there have been what the White House and media has called atrocities…..and of course there have been others across time but funny how none have mentioned any the the US may have committed….why is that?

But unfortunately the US has also committe3d some terrible things in the past….both distant and not so distant….

As most are well aware of I like to find teachable moments to help expand my readers knowledge and horizons (but some of the replies are way off subject which leads me to think knowledge is not necessarily important to some)….

Here are 10 atrocities that the US had a hand in committing both stateside and internationally….

You might know about the Tulsa Race massacre, which has thankfully gotten lots of long overdue attention in recent years, or the My Lai Massacre, where US troops abused and gunned down a whole village of Vietnamese civilians during the war there. But lots of atrocities deliberately perpetrated by American authorities against innocent victims at home and abroad have been, perhaps unsurprisingly, swept under the rug. That ain’t okay, folks. Let’s shed some light on some of these shameful episodes here…

10. Philippine-American War and Concentration Camps

The Philippine-American War (1899–1902) is one of the lesser-studied events in American classrooms. That could be because between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the World Wars, Vietnam and the Cold War, as well as other subjects, there are just bigger stories to cover that had a greater impact on US life back home. But maybe it’s because of the US Army’s use of ‘reconcentration’ orders to suppress support for guerrilla resistance against American colonial rule. Termed ‘zones of protection,’ these confined villages were subject to strict demarcation and controlled movement. And yes, by ‘reconcentration’ we definitely do mean regular ol’ concentration camps. Run by the United States. In a nation we colonized. 

Worse still, American reconcentration policy in the Philippines had an impact that extended beyond the formal wartime period. Rather than a fleeting measure applied to enforce martial law, reconcentration became a feature of the post-war governance structure, with the Philippines Commission authorizing provincial governors in 1903 to continue reorganizing specific populations.

There is more….read on….

10 American Atrocities You’ve Probably Never Heard About

My point is why condemn others when you are just as guilty as they?

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