The Costs and Consequences of American Empire.

Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

By, Chalmers Johnson

Chalmers Johnson in his book, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, analyses chronically the effects of foreign policies the United States pursued during the Cold War and into the present day. He especially considers the social and economic ramifications of military and diplomatic policies the United States implemented in East Asia.

He challenges the ways in which the United States foreign policies approaches the world, and in particular, he criticizes the Pentagon's role in promoting militaristic solutions to complicated regional problems. Johnson calls for a total reassessment of American national interests and foreign policies. He warns that the failure of the United States to reexamine and alter its outdated policies will lead to blowback, or unintended and harmful consequences, for the American people, businesses, and ultimately, global position.

One day after the horrific event of September 11,2001 President George W.

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Bush told the American people that we were attacked because we are "a beacon for freedom" and because the attackers were "evil," and in his address to Congress on September 20, he said, "This is civilization's fight." This attempt to define difficult-to-grasp events as only a conflict over abstract values- as a "clash of civilizations." The American public for decades has been kept in the dark about American Foreign Policies and it's consequences. The intention of the suicidal assassins of September 11, 2001, was not attacking America or American civilians, as our political leaders and the news media like to maintain, it was more a desperate retaliation attack towards American foreign policy, or as the CIA would call it Blowback.

What is Blowback?

The term "Blowback" was first used by the CIA in March 1954 in a recently declassified report on the 1953 operation to overthrow the...