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If blowback means long-term consequences of secret or unknown foreign policies that catch the population off guard and leave them open to false interpretations about the nature of the conflict, backdraft means the short- term consequences of overt policies blowing up right in our face. – author Scott Horton in Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism
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