When will President Obama visit Afghanistan?

When will President Obama visit Afghanistan?

 With 43 nations serving in the Nato’s International Security Assistance Force, foreign leaders visit this city every single week .

The latest arrival, the US Defence Secretary Robert Gates will be doing the normal tour of military and diplomatic engagements, including a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

We hear rumours that one of the next VIPs in town will be the leader of one of Afghanistan’s neighbours, President Ahmadinejad of Iran.

At the weekend, the British prime minister Gordon Brown was visiting his forces in Helmand.

But one leader is becoming conspicuous by his absence. Barack Obama has only been to Kabul once, as a presidential candidate in 2008.

Afghanistan has become his country’s most important military mission, with a large increase in troop numbers, since he took office 13 months ago.

Since Obama's inauguration on January 20^th 2009, his ally Mr Brown has visited Afghanistan on four occasions. Soon President Obama’s absence may start becoming an embarrassment.