He came to be considered by some an expert on a mass killing of more than 1, 200 inmates in Tripoli's AbuSalim prison in June 1996, after he spent months interviewing relatives and survivors.
If the world is one, and Obama is a citizen, how do we reconcile the showmanship over Guantanamo with the sidelining of issues that lead to the doors of Syria's horrific Tadmor Prison, Iran's Evin Prison, Libya's AbuSalim or the labor and death camps of North Korea?