The correct answer is "the US government."
Who does this editorial say is responsible for the Maine’s loss?
Correct answer: "the US government."
The editorial of the New York Journal, published on February 17, 1898, says that "the direct result of the dilatory [slow] policy of our government toward Spain. If we had stopped the war in Cuba when duty and policy alike urged us to do the Maine would have been afloat today."
We are talking about the incident during the revolutionary war between Cuba and Spain. On the morning of February 15, 1898, the USS Maine ship was at the harbor of la Havana, the capital city of Cuba, when an explosion sank the ship and killed 260 US shipmen. The US accused Spain of the sinking and this was a cause that detonated the Spanish-American War.
President McKinley could justify entering the war with the sinking of the USS Maine that was anchored in the harbor of Havana, the capital city of the Island of Cuba, This was part of the imperialistic desire of the United States government supported by Manifest Destiny, the idea that the United States had the divine right to expand its territory.
