It’s okay for Coalition Governments to seek investment from Middle Eastern countries, but when a Labor Government does it, it’s Whitlamesque mendicancy to swarthy Arabs types, writes Bernard Keane.
Middle eastern countries
Pakistan is the place to watch (this is not good)
Pakistan has been shoved in the too-hard basket for years now, simply because it was a bit too real to fit into the “war on terror” framework. It has nukes, and any fair electoral process is bound to put Islamic fundamentalists into power sooner or later, writes Guy Rundle.
