(CNSNews.com) - After becoming Afghanistan's first popularly elected president, Hamid Karzai Tuesday called for sustained help from the international community to bolster a young democracy that still faces the twin threats of terrorism and drugs, reports ABC News. Vice President Dick Cheney, the highest-ranking American official to visit Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, and U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld were among those attending the swearing-in ceremony.