Eamon from Boston emails in response to my piece on the war in Afghanistan, saying: 'I know you believe in human rights, so I fail to understand why you do not support the removal of the Taliban - a regime that couldn't even spell human rights.' Now leaving aside the question of whether the Afghan war was really about defending human rights, which I deal with here, the most striking thing about Eamon's email is his assumption that I support human rights. He just knows I do. This got me thinking. There are a number of political positions today that...