Obama Makes Surprise Visit To Afghanistan, Media Left With Few Details

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by Drew Grant | 1:10 pm, March 28th, 2010

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President Barack Obama made a surprise trip today, touching down in Kabul, Afghanistan to visit the country for the first time since he took office. Afghan President Hamid Karzai was notified about the American President’s arrival just an hour before he showed up, and the trip has been kept under such tight secrecy that reporters were only allowed to write about the event after Obama departed. CNN’s Candy Crowley quickly rounded up a bunch of pundits for speculation on State Of The Union, though with so little information flowing out, it’s mostly a guessing game.

At least it’s not unprecedented: Last year Obama made a similar “surprise” trip to Iraq to visit the troops. So far, the media has been repeating the same facts from the newswires put out earlier this morning with little variation except to provide context (Osama Bin Laden‘s message two days ago, the 30,000 extra troops deployed to the region), although we should be seeing a video released in the next hour or so of the president’s trip. He will only be in the region for approximately 2 more hours.

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valkyrie101

Lets see if those Islamic connections that Obama allegedly has work out. :-)
Toshiba2

When all is said and done Afghanistan will be another great victory for President Obama, I’m happy the country has given him the space to try and better the situation he was handed!
Moderate

His speech sounds like he is running for office.
HALO101st

Perhaps this Muslim president will stay there… ?
timzank

Chaper #236 in his ongoing saga “Let’s Change The Subject”.
annejaa

I thought that this president would lead this country well but he has done even more than that, he has made this American feel good about being an American again. The country has a strong leader who doesn’t just talk he gets the hard work done and doesn’t give up easily.The strange thing is that the republicans made everyone afraid of Muslims who all want to kill us but somehow get funds to rebuild Muslim nations.
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pyrope

Never miss a photo op.