Morning Jolt

 Three items worth reading today. ~Bob

Is the Saudi Crown Prince Exacting ‘Revenge’ on Biden?

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/is-the-saudi-crown-prince-exacting-revenge-on-biden/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MJ_20211112&utm_term=Jolt-Smart

U.S. Citizens Stuck in Afghanistan Because of Delayed State Department Manifest Approval

Just when you thought the situation in Afghanistan could not possibly get worse:

Hundreds of Afghans have been forced to leave safe houses in Afghanistan after the volunteer group trying to help them evacuate failed to negotiate their passage out of the country and ran out of money to support them, the group said Thursday.

The Afghans include U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, former U.S. government workers and others who worked on U.S. funded projects, and their families. They have been told to return to their homes or to fund their own accommodation in hope of a future flight, the group, Task Force Argo, said. . . .

Task Force Argo was one of the biggest volunteer groups, made up of current and former U.S. government officials, veterans and others working to charter evacuation flights out of Afghanistan. The group’s leaders said it has three flights ready to leave but nowhere to land the planes because the U.S. government hadn’t approved the passenger manifests or otherwise cleared the departures.

Because it cannot be repeated often enough, at least 100 American citizens, an unknown but considerable number of U.S. green-card holders, and more than 100,000 Afghan allies who qualified for Special Immigrant Visas remain trapped in Afghanistan, despite the president’s promise that, “If there’s American citizens left, we’re gonna stay to get them all out.”