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Excerpted from “Obama makes unannounced trip to Afghanistan; The trip, kept secret until Obama was on the ground, was his first to the country as president. He meets with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai to discuss government corruption, benchmarks of progress.” By Laura King and Julian E. Barnes, Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2010 | 10:11 a.m.
[SIZE="+2"]P[/SIZE]resident Obama flew into Afghanistan's capital Sunday on an unannounced visit, his first trip as president to a country where tens of thousands of new U.S. troops are being deployed this year. …
We do forget at times of high political rhetoric and controversy here at home that President Obama is also conducting two wars he inherited from the previous administration.