Yeah, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Many thousands of Filipinos were murdered and tortured by the American forces and were put in concentration camps for nothing else than having the same aspirations for national independence and self-government that the Americans are so proud of having had themselves in 1776.

The same kind of thing happened to the Vietnamese, who should have been given their independence in 1945. If they had been, there'd have been no Vietnam War.

The French should have left. The Americans should never have gone in. Vietnam was betrayed by the Allies after WWII, just like the Phillipines and Cuba were betrayed by the USA after the Spanish-American War.

Why? Because Great Powers behave as Great Powers. They do what is good for them, not for the indigenous populations in the small countries where they send their conquering armies. Empire is empire, and it knows no rule but its own hunger for dominion over the Earth and the Earth's resources.