If this guy had actually watched the show for three seasons instead of maybe reading the synopses (or having someone tell him what happened), he’d know that:

a) In Season 1, Victor Drazen (former heavyweight bad guy in Kosovo) lost part of his family in the US covert attack. His subsequent assassination attempt on Senator Palmer and kidnapping of Bauer’s family was simply out of revenge for their deaths – it had nothing to do with US foreign policy. It was a human conflict, not political.

b) In Season 2, American officials conspired with Islamic terrorists to detonate a nuclear bomb on American soil, to force the President to act unilaterally in attacking the Middle East – all this to control oil prices. Purely business and power grab.

c) In the just completed Season 3, one of the operatives in the 1st Season Cosovo mission was left behind by Bauer and his team, and sought revenge against the US that he saw “betrayed” him. He lofted around big terms like “American Imperialism” and “expansionism”, but it was clear Saunders was blinded by hatred and vengeance. Again, personal not political.

You can’t write a critique from press clippings, people….