![]() ![]() |a Includes bibliographical references (pages -237) and index. |a Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2000. |a "With a new introduction on blowback in the post 9/11 world"-Cover. |a Blowback : |b the costs and consequences of American empire / |c Chalmers Johnson. ![]() |a DLC |b eng |c DLC |d JRS |d LHA |d WIH |d KUT |d OCL |d BAKER |d MUQ |d BTCTA |d YDXCP |d ADI In Blowback, he issues a warning we would do well to consider: it is time for our empire to demobilize before our bills come due. In the wake of the Cold War, the United States has imprudently expanded the commitments it made over the previous forty years, argues Johnson. ![]() servicemen in Okinawa to our role in Asia's financial crisis, from our early support for Saddam Hussein to our actions in the Balkans, Johnson reveals the ways in which our misguided policies are planting the seeds of future disaster. In this sure-to-be-controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms. Blowback, a term invented by the CIA, refers to the uninted consequences of American policies. An explosive account of the resentments American policies are sowing around the world and of the payback that will be our harvest in the twenty-first century. ![]()
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