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The ambush of two West Virginia National Guard members just blocks from the White House was a knife in the back of every American who believes in law, order, and the safety of our uniformed men and women. Authorities have identified the suspect as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who, according to U.S. officials, worked with CIA‑backed units in Kandahar before being resettled in the United States.
Reports show Lakanwal arrived in the U.S. under the post‑withdrawal evacuation program in September 2021 and was later granted asylum, living in Washington state before allegedly driving across the country to carry out the attack. Those are not minor details — they map a pipeline that rushed vulnerable national security judgments through a chaotic process that relied more on haste than on homeland safety.
Veterans like Seth Jahn and Chad Robichaux, who spoke plainly on The Will Cain Show, warned of exactly this kind of infiltration and the bitter consequences of sloppy policy; Jahn called it “remnants of the recklessness of the former administration,” and that blunt assessment needs to land. These are men who’ve served on the ground and seen the enemy’s playbook; when they raise alarm bells about vetting and partner forces, Washington would do well to listen.
The political left and its media allies will try to soothe and deflect, but facts don’t care about feelings: a program created in haste to evacuate allies became a vulnerability when safeguards were weakened. Conservatives must insist on common‑sense reforms — a real, bipartisan re‑vetting of resettled combat partners, mandatory mental‑health screenings, and transparent reporting on how individuals admitted under emergency programs were screened.
President Trump’s swift response — pausing certain Afghan immigration processing and sending additional National Guard troops to protect the capital — was exactly the no‑nonsense action Americans expect when their safety is threatened. This is not political theater; it is the kind of decisive leadership that prevents more blood from being shed on our streets and in our public spaces.
Make no mistake: this tragedy exposes policy failures that span administrations, but it is on current leaders to fix what failed. Congress must hold hearings, demand answers from intelligence and immigration agencies, and pass statutory reforms to ensure no resettlement program can be a backdoor for threats to our people.
We grieve for Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and we pray for Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, and we owe it to them and every American to stop the political spin and get serious about national security. The choice is clear — either we defend our citizens with iron resolve, or we let bureaucratic softness leave ordinary Americans and our troops exposed; conservatives will keep fighting for the former.
