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...Buddhist, and live mainly in the south) and the Tamils (who number 2 million, are Hindu, and are concentrated in the north and east). The roots of discord go back to colonial times. The British favored the Tamils in the civil service in what Neil DeVotta, author of Blowback, a book about the origins of the conflict, says was "classic divide and rule." After independence in 1948, the Sinhalese took revenge. They made Sinhala the official language, discriminated against Tamils in areas like education and farming, and made Sinhala chauvinism a winning electoral strategy, most recently last November for President...
Though many mainstream papers ran CBS's charges essentially unchallenged on their front pages the next morning, their reporters were also catching the blowback from the bloggers. By day's end Fox News, the A.P. and ABC News had called the CBS story into question. Before long White House spokesman Scott McClellan would suggest that the documents might have been leaked by Democrats, and California Republican Congressman Christopher Cox was calling for an investigation...
...domestic challenge to wage war on the Soviets, and it suited the U.S. to help rally anti-Soviet sentiment in the Islamic world, particularly among Sunni elements naturally at odds with Iran. That's why a number of former intelligence personnel regard the emergence of the Qaeda phenomenon as 'blowback,' spook jargon for the unintended consequences of a covert operation. What the U.S. and its allies had helped to do in Afghanistan was assemble an international brigade of radical Islamists - hardly natural allies of the West, but nonetheless an extremely useful proxy in the immediate task of "bleeding the Soviets...
...have been a war made for TV, but Gulf War II has been a war made by TV. Knowing this campaign would be broadcast by Arab media like al-Jazeera - likely to show it in the goriest, least flattering light - the Pentagon chose targets and strategies to reduce blowback in the Muslim world, even at some military risk. After U.S. troops entered Baghdad, the war continued to be waged through TV. George Bush and Tony Blair took to Iraq's commandeered airwaves, press secretary Ari Fleischer began a White House briefing by announcing exactly when and for how long Bush...
...missile-defense program. Daschle called the ad "repulsive," and Johnson, whose Army-sergeant son only recently returned from Afghanistan, demanded an apology. Thune insists that while the national media criticized him, "I didn't catch any flak from real voters, from people in South Dakota. There was no blowback...