„It just hits you like a ton of bricks when you think about it,“ fumed a senior officer who has been in the military for nearly thirty years and was in Afghanistan when he had this revelation. „The Department of Defense is no longer a war fighting organization, it’s a business enterprise. Afghanistan is a great example of it. There’s so much money being made off this place.“
—Dana Priest and William Arkin, Top Secret America, (New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2011), 188.
