Last night’s West Wing episode, which dealt with the terrorist attacks, was lame in places but overall not bad. It was more of a seminar than anything else.
The writers borrowed from Tamim Ansary’s superb essay in the wake of the Sept. 11 slaughter, adapting his line about “when you think ‘the people of Afghanistan’ think ‘the Jews in the concentration camps.'” It’s a shame they didn’t credit him.