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| | American Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism a Century Ago |
 | | Let a line be drawn between two bloody September days in the history of American globalism precisely a century apart: 9-11-2001 and 9- 6-1901, the political assassination of the first American imperial president, William McKinley, gunned down in the midst of a war of colonial conquest and anti-insurgency in the Philippines. |
| | This ideology of dominance was reinvigorated in March 1947 as the Truman Doctrine, "an almost classic statement of the thesis that the security and well-being of the United States depended upon the successful execution of America's unique mission to defend and extend the frontier of democracy throughout the world" (Williams, "The Frontier," 101). |
| | The war began in earnest on Feb. 4, 1899 under McKinley, and was declared 'officially' ended on July 4, 1902 by Teddy Roosevelt. |
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