How Karzai got an earful from Obama

By NBC News’ John Yang and Kiko Itasaka

KABUL — President Obama came to Kabul to deliver a stern message to Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, and, according to one close Karzai observer, it landed.

Haroun Mir, head of the Center for Research Policy Studies in Kabul, told NBC News that when Obama and Karzai spoke to reporters at the Presidential Palace Sunday night it appeared “from the tone of [Karzai's] voice, one could understand that he certainly received a very tough message. And he was not very comfortable.”

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