America has the tendency to forget her friends. With a cannonball fire by Dewey at the onset of the 20th century,hehad Spain surrender to her and pay the last Spanish Governor-Generals US$20M for keeping Las Islas Filipinas. Education & democracy were made available to all; America kept the business. An abundance of gold, oil and natural resources were exploited. In the '40s,Japan destroyed Pearl Harbor. America bombed Manila & Hiroshima, she rebuilt Japan w/ Marshall fund into an economic power that, once in the past, was neck-and-neck w/ RP or PH in economic upbeatness. Manila was left to rebuild itself. Japan, meanwhile, almost beat the American automakers in their own turf afterwards, in electronics,too. America didn't bomb Korea, according to my uncle, aide to Douglas MacArthur, so communism flourished. And had not the young North Korean dictator been failing by his health, communism will be around forever. America lost everything in Vietnam in the '70s, yet,she rebuilt it into an emerging tiger economy, even leading its neighbors Bangladesh, Pakistan and PH to some extent, today. America bombed Iraq, she destroyed ancient history in the process. America is trying to rebuild Iraq; let's see if eternal peace in the Middle East can be achieved at last? And Communist China, once an archenemy of the US?America from all fronts is wooing Mainland China. Never mind if there are many Chinas. How about Soviet Russia? Not much of a threat now, after Berlin Wall fell. And so, therefore, America is pouring in all resources onto China so that when the sleeping dragon finally wakes up, the billion-Chinese will find a friend in America who, in the end, she can co-reign with in world. In the meantime, real friends have to fend for themselves. Will Obama change the course of that (unfairness and inequality in) history? Only God knows...
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