Blowback
Chalmers Johnson’s prophetic book “Blowback” links the CIA’s clandestine activities abroad to terrorism at home.
Congressman Ron Paul, the controversial candidate for the Republican nomination for president said: “I believe very sincerely that the CIA is correct when they teach and talk about blowback. When we went into Iran and installed the Shah, yes, there was blowback. A reaction to that was the taking of our hostages and that persists.”
The CIA’s term “blowback” is a metaphor for the unintended consequences of it’s activities, which are kept secret from the American people. In 1953, the CIA feared there would be blowback from its reprehensible interference in the affairs of Iran. By installing the Shah to power, the CIA brought twenty-five years of tyranny and repression upon the Iranian people, which concluded with the Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolution. The staff of the American embassy were held hostage for more than a year and that covert operation helped convince many people throughout the Islamic world that America was its mortal enemy.
The suicidal assassins of September 11, 2001, didn’t attack America, as our political leaders and the news media insist; they attacked our foreign policy. They utilized the strategy of the weak by killing innocent bystanders. Terrorist strike at the innocent in order to draw attention to the wrongdoing of our invincible leadership. Usually, those that seek revenge against America don’t have a chance of success. However, on those rare occasions that the strategy of terrorism does succeed, such as on September 11th., it renders our overwhelming military force worthless.
Bush told the American people that we were attacked because we are “a beacon for freedom” and because the attackers were “evil” and “this is civilization's fight.” The abstract values such as a “clash of civilizations” is a way of evading responsibility for the blowback that America’s imperialism has generated.
Eventually, a mushroom cloud will appear over a major city in America and it will be known as “payback” throughout the Islamic world.
Congressman Ron Paul, the controversial candidate for the Republican nomination for president said: “I believe very sincerely that the CIA is correct when they teach and talk about blowback. When we went into Iran and installed the Shah, yes, there was blowback. A reaction to that was the taking of our hostages and that persists.”
The CIA’s term “blowback” is a metaphor for the unintended consequences of it’s activities, which are kept secret from the American people. In 1953, the CIA feared there would be blowback from its reprehensible interference in the affairs of Iran. By installing the Shah to power, the CIA brought twenty-five years of tyranny and repression upon the Iranian people, which concluded with the Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolution. The staff of the American embassy were held hostage for more than a year and that covert operation helped convince many people throughout the Islamic world that America was its mortal enemy.
The suicidal assassins of September 11, 2001, didn’t attack America, as our political leaders and the news media insist; they attacked our foreign policy. They utilized the strategy of the weak by killing innocent bystanders. Terrorist strike at the innocent in order to draw attention to the wrongdoing of our invincible leadership. Usually, those that seek revenge against America don’t have a chance of success. However, on those rare occasions that the strategy of terrorism does succeed, such as on September 11th., it renders our overwhelming military force worthless.
Bush told the American people that we were attacked because we are “a beacon for freedom” and because the attackers were “evil” and “this is civilization's fight.” The abstract values such as a “clash of civilizations” is a way of evading responsibility for the blowback that America’s imperialism has generated.
Eventually, a mushroom cloud will appear over a major city in America and it will be known as “payback” throughout the Islamic world.
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