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Obama Signs Pact in Kabul, Turning Page in Afghan War
KABUL, Afghanistan — President
Obama, speaking to an American television audience on Tuesday
night from Bagram
Air Base, declared that he had traveled here to herald a new era in
the relationship between the United States and Afghanistan, “a
future in which war ends, and a new chapter begins.”
Mr. Obama’s address, during an
unannounced visit to sign a strategic partnership agreement with
President Hamid
Karzai that sets the terms for relations after the departure of
American troops in 2014, was a chance for him to make an
election-year case that he is winding down a costly and increasingly
unpopular war.
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Obama makes surprise trip to Afghanistan to sign key pact, mark bin Laden raid
President Obama outlined his plan to end America’s longest foreign war during a visit here Tuesday colored by election-year politics and economic uncertainty, declaring that “this time of war began in Afghanistan, and this is where it will end.”“We have traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war,” the president said at a U.S. military base. “In the pre-dawn darkness of Afghanistan, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon.”
Obama, Karzai Sign Strategic Afghan Pact
President Barack Obama made a symbolic trip to Afghanistan on Tuesday, arriving on the first anniversary of the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to sign an agreement with President Hamid Karzai that marks a transition in the war while committing the U.S. to another decade of economic and military aid.Mr. Obama said the Strategic Partnership Agreement he signed in Kabul would allow the U.S. to disentangle from Afghanistan, while not specifying funding or troop levels.
A. Cuvelier
