{"id":53990,"date":"2017-02-09T18:17:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=53990"},"modified":"2017-02-09T18:17:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:17:57","slug":"blowback-blues-redux-and-redux-redux-recurring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=53990","title":{"rendered":"Blowback blues redux, and redux redux, recurring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; category title would be along the lines of &#8220;the unobvious which ought to be blindingly obvious&#8221; &#8212; maybe <em>that <\/em>explains why these things are so hard to see ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tablet-DQ-600-blowback.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"870\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tablet-DQ-600-blowback.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tablet-DQ-600-blowback-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a <strong><em>pattern<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>You can stumble on an unintended blowback example any day of the week &#8212; and thrice on some days:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Probably most important thread you can read today from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rcallimachi\">@rcallimachi<\/a>. On why ISIS calls Trump&#39;s travel ban &quot;The Blessed Ban&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qPwSuZrQaS\">pic.twitter.com\/qPwSuZrQaS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shadi Hamid (@shadihamid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shadihamid\/status\/829428923066941449\">February 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>let me quickly add the next two in Callimachi&#8217;s series:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">12. The term they&#39;re using &#8211; &quot;a blessed ban&quot; &#8211; reminds me of what Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, spiritual founder of ISIS said about the 03 invasion<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rcallimachi\/status\/829355374838956032\">February 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">13. Zarqawi, founder of al-Qaeda in Iraq, which became ISIS, called the 2003 invasion of Iraq &quot;the Blessed Invasion&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VNT2h9YJ2v\">https:\/\/t.co\/VNT2h9YJ2v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rcallimachi\/status\/829355811877036032\">February 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>TBIJ<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebureauinvestigates.com\/2017\/02\/08\/nine-young-children-killed-full-details-botched-us-raid-yemen\/\">Nine young children killed: The full details of botched US raid in Yemen<\/a>\n<li><strong>Politico<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/02\/cia-memo-designating-muslim-brotherhood-could-fuel-extremism-214757\">CIA Memo: Designating Muslim Brotherhood Could \u2018Fuel Extremism\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Twitter<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rcallimachi\">Rukmini Callimachi<\/a><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; category title would be along the lines of &#8220;the unobvious which ought to be blindingly obvious&#8221; &#8212; maybe that explains why these things are so hard to see ] . It&#8217;s a pattern. ** You can stumble on an unintended blowback example any day of the week &#8212; and thrice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[869,526,92,627,1459,393,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blowback","category-charles-cameron","category-cia","category-doublequotes","category-rukmini-callimachi","category-twitter","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53990"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54002,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53990\/revisions\/54002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}