A Nation Mourns & Angers Ultimate FAFO Promised by Trump

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the shadow of the White House, on a crisp eve of Thanksgiving, the unthinkable became reality. Two young soldiers from the West Virginia National Guard, Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, just 20 years old, and her comrade, 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, were gunned down in what authorities are calling a deliberate ambush. These are the youngest boots on the ground for this deployment—both fresh West Virginia National Guard enlistees, sworn in less than 24 hours before the ambush. They were on a routine high-visibility patrol near 17th and I Streets NW (Farragut Square Metro area, about 3 blocks from the White House) when Rahmanullah Lakanwal rounded the corner and unloaded with a .357 Magnum revolver. Eyewitness video shows one hit first (fell, then re-targeted), the other taking multiple rounds—reports confirm head shots for both.

Beckstrom, a bright-eyed enlistee from the hills of Appalachia, did not survive her wounds. She succumbed early Thursday morning, leaving behind a family shattered and a nation gripped by a profound, seething grief. Wolfe fights on in critical condition, a testament to the fragility of service in a time of quiet peril.

The cold-blooded execution of 20-year-old National Guardsman Sarah Beckstrom and the grievous wounding of her 24-year-old comrade Andrew Wolfe by Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal—a man who once aided U.S. intelligence yet turned predator on American soil—exposes the Biden administration’s willful abdication of duty, and all its arrogance-fueled blunders that conservatives had warned against for months prior to the 2021 Kabul debacle.

Ignoring bipartisan pleas for measured extraction and ironclad safeguards, the Biden White House orchestrated a frenzied pullout that prioritized optics over lives, deliberately curtailing vetting protocols in a rush to airlift over 100,000 Afghans, many without visas or thorough background checks, as documented in internal memos decrying the emphasis on sheer volume at the expense of security.

Planes disgorged their human cargo onto U.S. tarmacs, only for evacuees to be shuttled to makeshift hubs like the Dulles Expo Center, near Washington, DC, where bureaucratic inefficiency dissolved into anarchy—scores slipping away untracked, their whereabouts lost to indifferent oversight. This tragedy, born not of inevitability but of ideological hubris, cries out for accountability from an administration that gambled with the safety of its own guardians and lost.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who once worked alongside American forces and even collaborated with CIA-backed units in his homeland, had driven cross-country from Washington state before opening fire blocks from the seat of power. Motive remains under FBI scrutiny: whispers of terrorism, an “act of evil,” as President-elect Donald Trump put it bluntly.

But the details, however they unfold, cannot mask the raw truth: These were not faceless statistics. They were guardians, deployed to a capital strained by the very border chaos their leaders had long debated. Beckstrom and Wolfe were part of a federal surge to bolster law enforcement amid rising threats, a deployment decried by some as overreach, but one that now stands as a grim reminder of America’s fraying edges.

The true color of the Left – blood red

The fallout has been swift and unforgiving. West Virginia’s governor, joined by Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Jim Seward, released the Guardsmen’s names with a voice heavy: “They served with honor; they deserved better.” Bipartisan condemnation poured in, from Capitol Hill to quiet diners in Beckstrom’s hometown, but beneath the unity simmers a deeper divide, one exacerbated by voices that, just days prior, questioned whether these soldiers should have been there at all.

Enter the asinine chorus from the left’s fringes. Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a former CIA analyst turned politician, drew fire for remarks eerily prescient in their callousness. In a video aired earlier this week, she warned of a dystopian fever dream: “It makes me incredibly nervous that we’re about to see people in law enforcement, people in uniform, military, get nervous, get stressed, shoot somebody.”

Slotkin and a cadre of Democrats, including Sen. Mark Kelly, had circulated clips urging service members to defy “illegal orders” from the incoming administration, a preemptive jab at Trump’s promised crackdowns on urban unrest and illegal immigration.

MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian echoed the sentiment post-shooting, musing that “some might object” to the National Guard’s very presence in American cities, as if the blood now staining D.C. streets were a policy footnote rather than a human tragedy.

These weren’t idle words; they were kindling on a fire already raging. For months, Democratic leaders had stoked fears of a “militaristic” Trump era, painting Guard deployments in crime-plagued blue strongholds as harbingers of authoritarianism.

With Beckstrom now dead, that rhetoric rings hollow, and hazardous. They sowed doubt in the ranks of those sworn to protect, and in doing so, perhaps emboldened the shadows where Lakanwal lurked.

They poked the bear

President-elect Trump’s response cut through the noise like a blade. In a statement from Mar-a-Lago, he confirmed Beckstrom’s death and reached out personally to her parents, his voice steady with paternal resolve: “Sarah was savagely attacked by an animal who should never have been allowed into our country.” He laid blame squarely at the feet of the Biden-Harris border policies, “totally unvetted, totally unchecked,” and vowed retribution not in vengeance, but in action.

“Deport Illegals Now,” he declared, signaling an acceleration of his mass deportation blueprint. Trump has long floated using the National Guard to round up and remove millions of undocumented migrants, a plan he doubled down on here, framing it as justice for Beckstrom and a bulwark against further incursions. No more half-measures; this was the clarion call to reclaim sovereignty, one enforcement sweep at a time.

In the quiet hours after the shots rang out, as Beckstrom’s flag-draped casket is prepared and Wolfe’s monitors beep in defiance, a sobering realization settles over the land. This was the line crossed, not just by a lone gunman with a grudge, but by a system that let him slip through, and by leaders who prioritized partisan theater over the lives on the line. The bear has been stirred, its claws unsheathed not in rage, but in resolve. Those who fanned the flames of division, who whispered that the Guard’s boots on city soil were the real threat, will soon find that actions, or inactions, have echoes.

They fucked around, and now the finding out begins. For Sarah Beckstrom’s sake, and for the republic she died defending, let it be thorough. Let it be final.

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