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Secretary Rumsfeld Interview with Tom Brokaw, NBC  Presenter:
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld November 01, 2001
Tuesday, October 30, 2001  (Interview with Tom Brokaw, NBC)
Brokaw: Mr. Secretary, here at home there's a new terrorist
alert, the stock market is way down today. Americans are not
very confident about what's going on either here at home or in
the war. Isn't there an urgent need for some kind of conspicuous
military victory in Afghanistan?  Rumsfeld: Oh, goodness. We
have a plan. It's in place. It's working. And it seems to me
that the idea of some urgent need for a quick, visible victory
is really not the way the world works. It takes a certain amount
of time to get yourself in place, so that you can create the
conditions for victory. We had to then pull out the air
defenses, so that we could function over the country of
Afghanistan. We then had to get capabiliti