An opinion piece criticizes the suggestion to rename Denali after William McKinley, highlighting McKinley's hypocrisy in promoting peace while leading the US into colonial expansion.
Updated: 20 seconds agoDenali was visible from Point Woronzof in Anchorage on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, as a person rides a bicycle on the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail. (Bill Roth / ADN) I guess it makes sense that a Republican president who knows nothing about Alaska ( Donald Trump ) believes our tallest mountain who never set foot in Alaska (William McKinley). I just can’t wrap my head around why an Alaskan would agree.
But here comes Jim Lieb, parroting Trump’s clueless proposal to rename Denali after William McKinley (“,” Dec. 31). Is a Native American name not good enough for these two? Lieb shares some “additional information” to convince us he and Trump are right. Problem is, most of Lieb’s information is bad information, provided without sources. McKinley did say, in his 1897 inaugural address, that: “We want no wars of conquest; we must avoid the temptation of territorial aggression.” But a year later he led us into a war of territorial aggression against Spain. The self-inflicted explosion of a battleship, the U.S.S. Maine, in Cuban waters gave him the excuse he needed to pick a fight. Spain, desperate to avoid a war with the United States,. McKinley neglected to tell that to Congress because he hoped, by going to war, to acquire some of Spain’s overseas territories. He ultimately annexed the Philippine Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico and, for good measure, the Hawaiian Islands. Under McKinley, America became a global colonial power. Does Lieb really think we should name the mountain after someone who promised peace but delivered war and colonial oppression? Lieb claims that many political historians consider McKinley one of the best presidents, again without providing any evidence.summarizes many such surveys of historians, and McKinley never makes it into the top 1
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