Blowback

Essay # 3329

International Relations > U.S.
Political Science
Public Administration

Blowback

A look at the reasons behind the September 11 terrorist attacks and how U.S. foreign policy in the 1980s created a terrorist breeding ground in the Middle East.

1,095 words () | 4 sources | 2001 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper is a discussion of reasons for the terrorist attacks of September 11. It discusses foreign policy in the 1980s including CIA actions that have led to today?s hostile situation. The paper also introduces the two sources of conflict in the world today: globalization and fundamentalism.

From the Paper:

?The fault of intelligence agencies is not that they did not stop terrorism, but that they actively created a situation in the Middle East which bred terrorism. In the mid 1980s, as the Cold War came to a head, the CIA funded and supplied arms to militant fundamentalist Muslim groups, in an effort to create unity against the USSR . In the parlance of "intelligence" organizations, the "blowback" from this activity is the current state of terrorism in the Middle East . ?