Edited sentence: His ideas regarding the situation demonstrate how this ideology has become a pattern/trend of United Stated foreign policy especially in consideration of the Philippine War.Schurman’s evaluation of the Philippine situation as being at the mercy of the US’s primary ability to save the islands is a prime illustration of this pattern/trend.Schurman’s statement illustrates the ideology that the United States is the moral crusader who can “rescue and save” countries by imposing a Westernized and democratic system.The United States acted out of the idea that morally, it is their duty as a superior nation to ensure the successful future of the inferiorly-portrayed Philippines