Politico brings to light a thread in the story of the Travel Ban that I have not seen elsewhere; the American College system educates the world. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed worked in Somalia’s US Embassy until 1988, when, due to events back home he applied for refugee status. As a refugee Mohamed went to college, started working for the state of New York as a compliance officer, then went back to Somalia back in 2010 as Prime Minister, and was ousted a year later but only after making a great reputation in Somalia. He has now been elected President of Somalia.
The Politico piece also describes how various leaders and government officials in the Travel Ban nations of Iran, Sudan and Yemen who have received American educations have improved relations between their nations and here. I thought about excerpting pieces of the story but there are so many good parts I cannot pick and choose from among them. One little gem is that a son of Warlord Aidid of Blackhawk Down fame became a US Marine corporal and then President of Somalia in 1996.
I strongly recommend reading this piece in Politico How an American Bureaucrat became President of Somalia
The story did make one mistake that I caught; it was US Rangers who were ambushed in Black Hawk Down, not Marines. It does not change the general thrust of the article.