After making all allowance for these misdeeds, it remains true that few indeed have been the instances in which war has been waged by a civilized power against semicivilized or barbarous forces where there has been so little wrongdoing by the victors as in the Philippine Islands.
He argues that the conduct of American forces in the Philippines was relatively humane compared to other conflicts.
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