Americans Feeling the Effects of 'Blowback'

[Chuck0]

Michael Pugliese wrote:
> 
>      Not a bad op-ed for someone who used to be a Cold Warrior.
> 
> Michael Pugliese
> 
> Thursday, May 4, 2000, Los Angeles Times
> Americans Feeling the Effects of 'Blowback'
>  Osama bin Laden's network is only one of many
> unintended consequences of our actions abroad.
> 
> By CHALMERS JOHNSON
> 
>     Our intelligence agencies--the CIA and its rivals
> in the Pentagon--have a history of creating neologisms
> to describe our world that cover up more than they
> reveal. There have been lofty coinages like
> "host-nation support," meaning foreign countries pay
> to base our troops on their soil, and military jargon
> like "low-intensity warfare" that repackages the most
> brutal strife in antiseptic language.

Uh, isn't "blowback" just a fancy term for good old-fahsioned "revenge?"

Chuck0 "learned about all of this from Babylon 5"

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