In fact, al-Qaeda affiliated organizations …show more content…
and it allies in the Middle East. The Syrian conflict is one example of the growing power of ISIS as a dominant terrorist organizations, which has expanded into Iraq and other countries as part of a pan-Islamist terrorist organization with the nationalist objective of forming its won nation state. More so, the continued cooperation Al-Qaeda in Syria is an important reminder of the large-scale blowback of American foreign policy that Johnson defined as part of new semantic approach to contextualism in the war on terror. Contextualism provides an epistemological tool that allows a “semantic thesis” to occur in the formation of political ideologies, such as blowback, that have become a normative part of political theorization on American foreign …show more content…
Terrorism has often been a method in which militants can use covert methods to fight a larger military force, such as the United States. Historically, America has been responsible for utilizing drone bombers and other methods of aerial bombardment that have killed Muslim civilians in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Contextualism provides an epistemological process in which the ideology of the individual victim of these bombings extends into larger organizational terrorist groups. Surely, the “act-in-context” provides one way to understand the concept of blowback as a consequence of failed American military