Chalmers Johnson: Blowback

The term ‘blowback,’ which officials of the Central Intelligence Agency first invented for their own internal use, is starting to circulate among students of international relations. It refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press reports as the malign acts of ‘terrorists’ or ‘drug lords’ or ‘rogue states’ or ‘illegal arms merchants’ often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations.

- Chalmers Johnson,

Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

http://www.amazon.com/Blowback-Consequences-American-Empire-Project/dp/0805075593