Furthermore, there were about 200,000 killed in putting down the Philippine insurrection. With today's international media where everything is either instantaneous or recent, there's no way public opinion would accept something like that. Max Boot's an idiot.
I've seen estimates well above your 200K. And I dunno jack about Max Boot.
That said, the Phillipines may offer little tactical parallel but it's a strategic lesson far above WWII or Vietnam as for what's happening now, especially as regards the home front.
Think.