Tariq Ali’ s nostrum for Afghanistan: talks to include the “Chinese because they have investments there . . .  the Pakistanis, Iranians, and the Russians.” Not, we note, the Japanese, to whom Hamad Karzai has just promised first crack at the minerals – which were discovered by the Americans.

Remind me again: why are Australians dying there?

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