Saving the Pentagon from Itself

Published: Aug. 11, 2019, 8 a.m.

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On September 10, 2001, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld presents his vision for a new type of military that relies heavily on privatization.\\xa0 Rumsfeld claims that he is not trying to destroy the Pentagon, but \\u201csave it from itself.\\u201d\\xa0 At the exact time that he is giving his speech, four radical Jihadists are checking in to the Marriot Hotel in Herndon, VA.\\xa0

Less than 24 hours after giving his speech, Donald Rumsfeld would no longer be talking about war in the figurative sense.\\xa0 He would be involved in it literally, as he bravely rushed into the embers of the West Wall of the Pentagon to save lives.\\xa0

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