Obama in Afghanistan. . .

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday as part of his week-long foreign tour.

Following their meeting, Obama told CBS News, “There’s starting to be a growing consensus that it’s time for us to withdraw some of our combat troops out of Iraq, deploy them here in Afghanistan, and I think we have to seize that opportunity. Now is the time for us to do it. I think the situation is getting urgent enough that we have got to start doing something now.”

Earlier Sunday, Obama also met and praised U.S. troops over breakfast at a heavily fortified base in the capital, Kabul.