The U.S. president, Barack Obama , has come to Afghanistan today to sign with the Afghan authorities an agreement that will govern relations between Washington and the Central Asian country, a trip that coincided with the first anniversary of the special operation in which it was shot a number of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The president is planning a televised speech addressed to U.S. citizens on the occasion of the anniversary. The Agreement called for a Strategic Partnership between U.S. and Afghanistan will set the conditions on the American presence beyond 2014, the date on which it is expected that NATO has withdrawn the vast majority of combat personnel. Obama wants to show people its supposed successes in U.S. foreign policy, and campaign for reelection has made the death of Bin Laden a key element in this line of argument. Visiting the country from which the extremists prepared the 11-S,Obama seeks to reinforce this message, but also opens the ban to a possible wave of criticism from Republicans who say the current president has politicized the death of Bin Laden . After leaving Washington in the darkness of the night late on Monday, Obama arrived in Bagram air base, a few dozen kilometers from Kabul. It plans to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at his palace and later talk about the war at 7.30 pm, when the east coast. The speech Obama will focus the partnership agreement and probably will emphasize their plans to reduce military and financial effort on the costly and unpopular war in Afghanistan. The White House tries to present as a successful strategy of Obama , despite the continuing levels of violence and corruption problems affecting the country, which have cast doubt on the future stability of the country. The opponent of Obama in the presidential election, Republican Mitt Romney has criticized Obama's withdrawal plans, and has said he can leave the country in a very vulnerable situation in which the Taliban could return.
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