The Great West Wing Rewatch: 3.21 "Posse Comitatus"
Joel: I haven't yet mentioned the operation to kill Shareef storyline. While the actual operation takes place in this episode, discussion and debate about the idea have been in the past several episodes, and much of next season will be dedicated to the fallout that comes from what happened in this episode. This is probably the most complicated situation the President has faced so far in the series. The situation is nowhere close to being black and white, and there is no real right answer. No matter what decision is made, Bartlet is going to feel a tremendous amount of guilt over his decision. I can’t in this handful of paragraphs say if the call he made was the right one or the wrong one. It’s a decision I’m honestly thankful that I’ll never have to make. I do want to say that I’m glad that the show took several episodes to lead up to this point. This is not the kind of story to tell in a single, sixty minute episode. The gravity of what is being discussed here, and the po...