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Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were ambushed while on patrol in downtown Washington, D.C., in a brutal, apparently calculated attack that left 20-year-old Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom mortally wounded and Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe fighting for his life. The images of troops—young Americans who stepped forward to serve—lying wounded on a city street are a gut punch to every patriotic citizen who believes in law, order, and common decency.
Authorities say the suspect, identified as an Afghan national who arrived in the United States in 2021, drove cross-country before carrying out the shooting and was subdued by fellow Guardsmen and law enforcement at the scene. The facts of his entry into the country and the apparent targeting of uniformed soldiers raise urgent questions about vetting, border policies, and who is making decisions that expose our troops to risk on American streets.
On Newsmax’s Chris Salcedo program, veteran reporter Rick Leventhal blasted the toxic rhetoric coming from Democrats and their media enablers, arguing that relentless fearmongering and political grandstanding helped create an atmosphere of confusion and fear in the capital before this attack. His point is straightforward: when politicians score points by stoking panic or denouncing security measures, they make it harder to have sensible, tough policies that actually protect Americans.
Conservatives have warned for years that soft-on-border and soft-on-crime policies, paired with constant media attacks on law enforcement and the military, embolden bad actors and erode deterrence. This is not theoretical anymore; when a foreign national who should have been scrutinized can allegedly plan and drive to our capital to ambush troops, every lawmaker who cheered open-borders policies or minimized threats should be forced to explain themselves.
We must also call for accountability from the agencies charged with protecting the capital and from the political class that politicizes security while they sleep in gated compounds. Investigators from the FBI and local law enforcement are conducting a coast-to-coast probe, and the American people deserve full transparency about how this man entered the country, why he was here, and whether policy failures played a role.
Finally, while the left runs through another round of political theater, patriotic Americans should stand with the wounded and honor the fallen by demanding real solutions: border security, robust vetting, and unwavering support for the men and women in uniform who protect our streets. To every Guardsman on patrol and every family bearing this cost, know we see you, we thank you, and we will not let political fearmongering be the last word in this city or this country.
