Donald Rumsfeld remarks at the Pentagon, Sept. 10, 2001
The topic today is an adversary that poses a threat, a serious threat, to the security of the United States of America. This adversary is one of the world’s last bastions of central planning. It governs by dictating five-year plans. From a single capital, it attempts to impose its demands across time zones, continents, oceans and beyond. With brutal consistency, it stifles free thought and crushes new ideas. It disrupts the defense of the United States and places the lives of men and women in uniform at risk…You may think I’m describing one of the last decrepit dictators of the world…The adversary’s closer to home. It’s the Pentagon bureaucracy…According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions.
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