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>"After the U.S.S. Maine sank in Havana Harbor in 1898, >President McKinley was called upon to prove it. When >at first he refrained from retaliation against Spain, >McKinley was subjected to the jingoes' feminizing >derision. Editorials cited a “great need of a man in >the White House” and “manly and resolute” responses to >Spain's treachery. Teddy Roosevelt, eager to make >manliness the fulcrum of any drama, complained, >“McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate >éclair.” > >McKinley eventually demonstrated his backbone, bending >to the jingoes' demands for war. Though the proximate >cause of the conflict resided in Cuba, the American >defeat of Spain led McKinley to annex the Philippines. >The White House had hoped U.S. troops would be greeted >in Manila as liberators. Instead, U.S. forces were >soon engulfed in a bloody, extended fight against >homegrown insurgents. More than 2,000 U.S. soldiers >were killed and hundreds of thousands of Filipinos >slaughtered. An occupying army far from home, U.S. >troops were frightened and enraged by their inability >to tell friend from foe. They soon resorted to >unconventional measures. The American public had been >encouraged to view the war as a character-building >exercise for its virile young men. It was shocked to >discover that some U.S. soldiers were systematically >torturing the prisoners under their control. > >When Karl Rove cited McKinley as his inspiration for >Bush's presidency, the Philippine-American War wasn't >what he had in mind. Instead, Rove, who focused on >McKinley in graduate school, noted that the 25th >President had ushered in a Republican reign of 36 >years, interrupted only by the two terms of Democrat >Woodrow Wilson. Rove envisioned Bush at the head of a >similar juggernaut." > >The juggernaut was ended in November of 2006

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