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Through twenty months of war we have been engaged in a fruitless attempt to subjugate our purchased victims, and we have been cajoled, continually, by the declaration that the war was ended.
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Boutwell critiques the prolonged conflict in the Philippines as a futile attempt to subjugate the local population.
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