Ileft these shores, at vancouver, a red-hot imperialist. i wanted the american eagle to go screaming into the pacific. it seemed tiresome and tame for it to content itself with the rockies.
why not spread its wings over the phillippines, i asked myself? and i thought it would be a real good thing to do.
but i have thought some more, since then, and i have read carefully the treaty of paris, and i have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the phillippines. we have gone there to conquer, not to redeem.
it should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. and so i am an anti-imperialist. i am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

—mark twain, 1900

excerpt courtesy of the library of congress

using the excerpt, what did mark twain believe about the u. s. policy of global expansionism?
a.
he believed that the united states was wrong in trying to impose its control over weaker nations.
b.
he believed that the united states had a moral obligation to take control over weaker nations.
c.
he believed that the united states should limit its economic control to weaker asian nations.
d.
he believed that the united states should join european countries in controlling weaker nations.