Title: The apologist/centrist view from the West
Product review: Although Linn and supporters of this view (including elitists such as the editors of the Council on Foreign Relations' Foreign Affairs)consider the deliberate provocations and genocidal fury of the United States, exhaustively detailed by Stuart C. Miller and other critics of the war, to be a "myth". This is an outrageous assertion, that Linn fails to support, while attempting to quietly paper over the history and repair the reputations of the Americans who killed a military disadvantaged opposition with brutality. Linn brushes off the butchery of Samar as no more than "harsh", while pushing the idea that Filipinos actually welcomed the US. Linn's bias in support of "benevolent assimilation" is clear. This dry blow by blow of military operations does not go into the much more important decision making at the all-important policy and geostrategy level.
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