Bad Timing

In last night's episode of Boston Legal, Alan Shore (James Spader, below left) was acting on behalf of a man who had been wrongly detained at Guantanamo Bay. The man was an aid worker, and his friend, who was detained with him, had committed suicide. When asked what the friend was, the man replied, "A doctor." The message was clearly that doctors save lives, they don't become terrorists and kill.

As this programme has aired over here a matter of days after terrorists tried (but fortunately failed) to take life in car bomb attacks, the message has been warped slightly by the fact that the terrorists in this case are all doctors and other workers in the National Health Service!

But not as much as the terrorists have been warped by whatever dogma has made them think that murder is as valid as saving life.