We’ve been hurt before: Jon Stewart on Obama’s Renewed Pledge on Guantanamo

Juan Cole 05/04/2013

Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show on President Obama’s renewed push to close the illegal Guantanamo prison camp.

Limbo Update America wanted to believe Barack Obama’s promise to close Guantanamo, but the skeptical country had been hurt before.

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page