Why America Is A Lousy Puppeteer - David F. Schmitz - POLITICO Magazine

Why America Is A Lousy Puppeteer - David F. Schmitz - POLITICO Magazine: The outcome is that a policy designed to modernize and Westernize countries instead only increases instability and unrest, leading to political polarization and anti-American sentiment. This is what the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1990s termed “blowback,” the unintended political consequences that result when the United States shores up unpopular and repressive regimes that help foster and fuel radical nationalist movements, and bring to power the exact forms of government the United States ostensibly seeks to prevent.