December 3, 2001 - Post 9/11, Ex-CIA Chief Robert Gates Sees "Dangerous & Frustrating" Time Ahead

IDespite the American military's successes in overtaking the Taliban in Afghanistan, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Robert M. Gates, holds little hope for a quick end to the war on terrorism. He told an audience in DePauw University's Kresge Auditorium, "I believe the time ahead will be dangerous and frustrating. Frustrating because a clear cut victory over terrorism may be a long time coming... Frustrating because patience will be needed, and that has never been a particular strength of Americans," Gates said in his Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture, entitled "Terrorism: A New Face, A New World."