What I think we’re proving is that this is an incredibly tangential point, with considerable ambiguity as to timeline. The larger point now becomes even more credible: there are a few elements displaying a leftist point of view (surprise! whodathunkthat?) but ‘Lost’ was largely a non-partisan effort whose principal drawbacks were not unfair hits at American foreign policy but (1) three main characters whose personalities could not fully sustain the weight (2) inconsistent worldview leading to plot irregularities and causal problems (I’m thinking Charlotte here and Faraday as only one example - Juliet and Sawyer would be another) and (3) an unsatisfactory ending caused by trying not to offend any world religious tradition and, well, forgetting about some marginal characters.