Who might agree with john hay's opinion that the spanish american war was a splendid little war? who might disagree? why?

John Hay (the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom), writing from London to his friend Theodore Roosevelt declared that from start to finish it had been "a splendid little war." Few Americans would disagree with that assessment of the Spanish American War. It was short, it accomplished its goals, and it established the United States as an international power. Anyone who was anti-imperialist might disagree with this, however.