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A new video has surfaced of the brutal ambush in downtown Washington, D.C., where two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot near the Farragut West metro station on November 26, 2025. Fox News correspondent Madeleine Rivera laid out fresh details on Saturday in America, and the footage makes clear this was not random street violence but a targeted attack on uniformed American troops doing their duty. The outrage is raw because this happened just blocks from the White House, a place where those who wear the uniform should be untouchable.
The human toll is heartbreaking and infuriating: two guardsmen were shot in the head, one of them, Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, later succumbed to her wounds, while another, Andrew Wolfe, remains fighting to recover. These were young Americans who answered the call to serve their country on American soil, not criminals or political props, and yet they were ambushed in broad daylight. Families, towns, and the whole country deserve answers and accountability for how men and women in uniform came to be so exposed.
Even more damning are the emerging details about the suspect: Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who reportedly worked with a CIA-backed unit in Afghanistan, entered the United States under Operation Allies Welcome and was later granted asylum in April 2025. Whether through bureaucratic incompetence or soft-on-security policies, a man with a violent past was living freely among us and now stands accused of shooting our National Guard. The American people are rightly furious that the system meant to protect us appears to have failed these soldiers.
The administration moved swiftly to pause visa issuance for Afghan passport holders and to halt asylum decisions in the wake of the attack, a measure many of us believe is overdue and necessary to prevent further danger to Americans. President Trump also requested additional National Guard deployments to the capital, underscoring that protecting our citizens and servicemembers must come first. Make no mistake: this was treated as a possible act of terrorism, and federal law enforcement must pursue every angle without political hesitation.
Conservative Americans should be clear-eyed about the lesson here: open-door immigration postures and lax vetting put lives at risk, and the political class that defended those policies must be held to account. This is not about scapegoating a people; it is about enforcing common-sense security and immigration rules that prioritize American safety, reforming the asylum system, and ensuring that anyone who served in violent foreign units is thoroughly screened before being paroled or naturalized. If policymakers refuse to learn from this tragedy, they will be complicit in whatever comes next.
We mourn Specialist Beckstrom and pray for the recovery of her fellow guardsman, and we demand swift justice for these attacks on our troops. Local officials, federal prosecutors, and the chain of command must be transparent, aggressive, and unafraid to prosecute failures in the vetting process up to the highest levels. America owes these soldiers more than words; it owes them action, protection, and a promise that service in our uniform will never be repaid with neglect.
