[AnotherUnixGeek]

Sayid’s character, and the bad American’s who corrupted him, is just one shining example.

You have a good point on that one - I remember being annoyed by that particular arc. But off the top of my head, it's the only example I remember. If you choose to continue with the series, I found the show's flaws to be mostly in the areas of story continuity and too much time spent on the tiresome Jack-Kate-Sawyer triangle, not hidden or overt political bias.

[BelegStrongbow]

Not to be contentious, but Sayid did torture Nadia before the Americans ever showed up. The difficulty for him was that he was being ordered to torture his own commander, who almost succeeded in neutering him through insults and insinuations.

However, I also got the impression that he went further for the Americans than he ever had for Saddam, and that is unlikely in the real world to several levels of magnitude.