Its counterpart in geopolitics is "blowback," when military action in one sphere produces an unintended and undesirable consequence in another.
September 11, 2001, was blowback.
George H.W. Bush had sent an army of half a million to hurl Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, a triumph. He proceeded to impose severe sanctions on the Iraqis and to build U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia.
"Infidel" soldiers on sacred Islamic soil and the suffering of the Iraqi people under American sanctions were two of the causes Osama bin...











Very simplistic response (to be polite).
My favorite was Roosevelt losing Eastern Europe to communism.
Roosevelt didn't lose Eastern Europe, Stalin took it. The Red Army in 1945 was a juggernaut. There was nothing the U.S. could do.
Obama waged war domestically on the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the financial security of the Nation by his massive spending and accumulated debt, thereby stealing the very freedoms that this country is based upon.
Obama waged war domestically on the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the financial security of the Nation by his massive spending and accumulated debt, thereby stealing the very freedoms that this country is based upon.