Barack Obama had breakfast with U.S. troops in Kabul as part of his visit to Afghanistan on July 20, 2008. Obama went to an American base in the Afghan capital to dine with soldiers and sailors there. Later that same day, he met with President Hamid Karzai.
In May 2012, Obama and Karzai signed an historic agreement for American and NATO troops to leave Afghanistan by 2014. Karzai will also step down as president the same year.
According to the New York Times, the looming transition is "is causing anxiety among the Afghan elite who have been among the war’s biggest beneficiaries, enriching themselves from American military contracts, insider business deals with foreign companies, government corruption and narcotics trafficking."
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