[cicero's_son]

"Well, Brzezinski admits that Afghanistan I was a provokation to get the Sovs to play. Those little old Islamic extremists weren't going to hurt us... Can you say "BLOWBACK"?"

Blowback--the new bogeyman. My question is what will the blowback be on all of this willy-nilly speculation about blowback...

[Zviadist]

Blowback--the new bogeyman. My question is what will the blowback be on all of this willy-nilly speculation about blowback..

Fine. Call it what you will. Call it the negative consequences of excessive meddling, call it typical American foreign policy simplism and provincialism. Whatever you call it, we are seeing the fruits of our labors some back to strike us and no one wants to talk about it -- the root cause of the current crisis. Only feelgood things like "they hate us because we are beautiful."