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Originally Posted by sob
I disagree with the last sentence. Our leaving disproves the claims that the US is "imperialistic."
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The problem is that we can't know for sure what the actual intentions were. We can only guess. I choose to guess one way, you choose to guess another. Neither of us are wrong or right until we know for sure. As Manx pointed out, the US leaving does not prove the imperialistic theory is wrong.
Until we sit down with the administration and decision makers responsible for the withdrawl and a lie detector, we can't be sure. The only way we can guess is to watch for patterns of behavior in America. We can watch and see how much control the US wants over resources and how much the US is willing to do to get it. What resource did the Phillipines represent? How would the investment of US control pay off in the long run? In my humble opinion, there would really be no pay off. While the Phillipino econemy is on the rise, it does not represent a major export that the US needs (unless you're like me and you love lumpia).