"Blowback" NJC

[Blair Fraipont]

Speaking of Blowback, I took a "World in Our Time" History course this past semester at the University of Delaware and our professor showed us a "Frontline" or "Hardline" or CNN special on the topic of "Blowback". Quite interesting and revealing about the US connections with AFghanistan vs. Russia in the late 80s. ANyways, there is a book of the aforementioned subject and it may be interesting to some.


Blowback By C. Simpson

Blair

NP: "BOdy and Soul" JOhn Coltrane

Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, nothing to do with Wahabi fundamentalist terrorism. The CIA funded bin Laden as part of its effort to contain and subvert the Soviet Union with Islamic fundamentalism, and what we have now is what's known as 'Blowback,' or the threat of unintended consequences. If there were to be popular elections in Saudi Arabia, where bin Laden and most of the hijackers are from, bin Laden would probably be elected President. Which is probably the immediate impetus for invading Iraq - Wahabism is so strong in Saudi Arabia that the House of Saud could fall pretty soon, and so no more cheap oil for us. We get Iraq, we get the cheap oil, we get a permanent military base to keep Saudi Arabia in line, whether Wahabi or not.

It's not about finding a dozen empty artillery shells. Hell, Rumsfeld said last year the Pentagon couldn't account for $4 trillion worth of spending over the last few decades.

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