Early in the next century, President Theodore Roosevelt compared Muslims with a more domestic model of fanaticism when answering critics of his policies toward a rebellious minority in the Philippines: “To abandon the Moro country as our opponents propose in their platform, would be precisely as if twenty-five years ago we had withdrawn the Army and the civil agents from within and around the Indian reservations in the West, at a time when the Sioux and the Apache were still the terror of our settlers.”

XREF: Connects colonial-era comparison frameworks across American imperial projects in the Philippines and domestic Indian policy.

Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon F…, loc. 85