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On November 26, 2025, two West Virginia National Guard members were ambushed and shot just blocks from the White House while performing high-visibility patrols meant to protect the American people. The brazen attack underlines a stark reality: our soldiers and citizens are being left dangerously exposed on American streets. President Trump immediately posted a video address condemning the violence and assuring the nation that those responsible will be pursued and held to account.
Authorities say the suspect, identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is an Afghan national who entered the United States in 2021 and was taken into custody after being wounded during the incident; investigators are treating the event as a targeted attack. This is not the kind of accidental tragedy a soft-on-security leadership can shrug off — it has the hallmarks of a deliberate assault on our sovereignty and those who stand guard for it. The FBI and local police are leading the probe, and the nation deserves answers about who was allowed in and how this person obtained a weapon.
President Trump used the moment to call out the failures that led to this day, labeling the attack an act of terror and immediately directing his administration to send additional forces to secure the capital. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed the request for 500 more National Guard troops, a practical, no-nonsense response to a dangerous reality that left-leaning officials and activist judges have too often ignored. When brave Americans are shot downtown, hollow platitudes from the political class won’t stop the next ambush — decisive action will.
This incident also shines a harsh light on the consequences of reckless immigration and resettlement policies. Reporting indicates the suspect arrived under the Biden-era Operation Allies Welcome in 2021, a program that proved far too lax in vetting and oversight. Conservatives who warned that security and immigration could not be decoupled from national safety were mocked for their concerns; today those warnings look prescient and painfully obvious.
Worse, some in the establishment rushed to treat this as a question about politics rather than public safety, even as a federal judge recently questioned the legality of the very deployments that were put in place to protect Americans. The left’s reflexive obsession with process over protection has consequences when troops on the ground are at risk and cities are left vulnerable by political theater. If judges and city leaders want to play constitutional hardball, they should remember who pays the price when ideology meets violence.
Make no mistake: the National Guard are patriots doing the dirty, dangerous work of keeping our streets safe and they deserve every bit of our support and gratitude. The immediate deployment of additional troops was the right call, and it must be backed up by a comprehensive rollback of policies that invite risk at our borders and in our communities. If Washington truly values life and liberty, it will stop punishing lawfulness and start punishing the threats to our homeland.
Americans must demand real accountability from every level of government — from the resettlement programs that failed to secure proper vetting, to city leaders who prefer virtue signaling over vigilance. We owe a solemn debt to the guardsmen who were targeted while serving their country, and we must ensure that their sacrifice triggers lasting reform, not more excuses. The time for tough, patriotic leadership is now — not tomorrow, not after another tragedy.
