Foreign Policy Scholar

Thomas Henriksen

1 article 2001

Thomas Henriksen is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, specializing in U.S. foreign policy and national security affairs. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2001, writing on debates surrounding the concept of "blowback" in American foreign policy.

The "Blowback" Myth

October 15, 2001 · Magazine

EVEN BEFORE PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH approved covert support for the factions opposing the Taliban regime, pundits began warning us about "blowback," in which we are engulfed by the unintended consequences of our actions. Time and again, we are told, American support for Afghan resistance to the…