Ray Hanania

The slow pace at which Democrats in Minnesota have addressed the enormous $9 billion so-called Somali fraud scandal — playing politics with it rather than seeing it as the crime that it is — has allowed the situation to worsen.

It is very rare that an issue of fraud is so closely linked with one ethnic group, as it has been in Minnesota in a scandal involving the nation’s largest concentration of Somali immigrants.

While the focus for US President Donald Trump during the Iran war is naturally on avoiding human casualties, what he also needs to consider is the damaging impact it is having on the Republican Party.

Nearly every American President since Richard Nixon in 1974 has visited Saudi Arabia either to avoid regional conflicts or to reinforce bilateral relations in foreign and economic policy.