backdraft

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

Despite government lies that Omar Mateen was driven by repressed homosexuality, in fact, his 2016 Orlando terrorist attack was backdraft from Obama's bombing campaign against the Caliphate he had helped to create in Iraq and Syria just a couple of years before in an attempt to oust Bashar al-Assad from power in Damascus.