Some interesting questions raised by this season of 24:

1. Does the President have a greater obligation to her country than to her spouse? Does she have a greater obligation to strangers in another country? If as President she can act to save her spouse, should she do so? Or is there a division of roles here--she cannot permit herself as a private citizen to make use of the tools that are available to the President?

President Taylor says that she cannot ask the American people to make sacrifices that she herself cannot make. And she is not the one who would be killing her husband, but she would be allowing her husband die (in a way that does admit of active efforts to find him and preventing this from happening). Is the First Gentleman no different from any other American citizen though?

2. Are those who are liberated obligated out of justice to do something for those who died to liberate them? Or for the liberating country as a whole? And if they didn't ask to be liberated? Who can legitimately represent the people if the country is being ruled by a tyrant, and speak for their desire to be liberated?