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On November 26, 2025, two West Virginia National Guard members were ambushed and shot just two blocks from the White House while performing a vital security mission, a cowardly attack that left Specialist Sarah Beckstrom dead and Specialist Andrew Wolfe gravely wounded. This was not some garden-variety crime — it was an ambush on uniformed American soldiers whose only “crime” was serving their country and keeping our capital safe.
Investigators say the suspect is a 29-year-old Afghan national identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who the government admits entered the United States in September 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome and had prior paramilitary ties to CIA-backed units in Afghanistan. That timeline is critical: this man was paroled into the country amid the chaotic evacuation policies of 2021, and later sought asylum, a fact that should give every American pause about the reckless way policy was handled.
Newsmax guest host Bob Brooks and others on the right are rightly pointing out what President Trump warned about in 2021 — that mass, largely unvetted evacuations open the door to security failures. On Newsmax, DOJ official Harmeet Dhillon blasted the media for trying to spin blame onto the presence of the Guard rather than the real problem: shoddy vetting and dangerous policies that let potential threats inside.
This isn’t abstract politics; DHS officials themselves described the suspect as having been paroled in under the Operation Allies Welcome program and labeled portions of that intake as “unvetted,” a predictable consequence of the Biden administration’s rushed posture in 2021. President Trump and conservative voices have demanded accountability and immediate action — not platitudes — after what many now describe as a preventable tragedy.
Meanwhile, the predictable left-wing instinct to blame uniformed servicemembers or to argue that their presence “provokes” violence is disgraceful and dangerous, and it lowers the cost of attacking our own. Harmeet Dhillon’s blistering condemnation of that media blame game is a reminder that defending law and order means defending the brave men and women who stand between Americans and chaos.
Hardworking Americans should demand immediate, concrete steps: suspend indefinite parole programs that accept large groups without proper vetting, pause Afghan immigration applications until true background checks are enforced, and prosecute anyone whose negligence allowed a known risk to go unaddressed. The federal government has already begun halting Afghan immigration processing pending review — now politicians must follow through with real reforms and stand with the National Guard, not the talking points of an elite media that too often excuses failure.
