Blowback and the Perception of Hatred for the Western World by the Middle Eastern/Muslim Community
Introduction
The concept of blowback refers to those unintended consequences which are suffered by the civil population of an aggressor government as a result of the covert operations of another government or international body. In the context of this research paper, the western world is portrayed as acting on intelligence to effect attacks against the Middle East, and the former emerges as the aggressor. To the affected civil population, the covert operations are perceived as random incidences of political violence, acts which have no justifiable cause. This perception can be attributed to the fact that the civil population is largely ignorant of the underlying causes that necessitated the attack or counter-attack. As a result, this perception creates sentiments of hatred for the western world with the common view being that the native Middle Eastern community is being victimized for its inherent cultural or religious beliefs. According to Brown, the concept of blowback was first coined by the Central Intelligence Agency and refers to the negative consequences of foreign policies that were kept secret by the agency from the American people (74). Brown notes that the frequent reports that are often aired by the media on the malign acts of terrorists, illegal arms merchants or drug lords are usually blowbacks from previous American Intelligence operations. This subsequently explains why would be “terrorists” of the present, such as the Taliban and Iraqi regimes, were previously financed and supported militarily by the U.S and were former allies of the western states.
The Overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh Government’s Blowback, and the perceived hatred that the Middle East/Muslim community holds against the west, could be traced to more than a century back when