This article in Salon sums up what was so wrong with the “special” Wednesday episode of the West Wing that dealt with the events of 9.11. This quote was the most interesting in the article:
“The biggest problem, though, was the show’s message, or lack thereof. Sanctimonious Sam’s (Rob Lowe) insistence that terror never works was reassuring bullshit; terror has succeeded in getting recalcitrant powers to the bargaining table, at least, from Ireland to Israel (and played an ill-remembered role in the push for a Jewish state in the first place). And history may find that the Sept. 11 attack completely reordered U.S. foreign policy, forcing a new multilateralism on the go-it-alone Bush administration, plus new sensitivity and attention to the growing Muslim world. “
