One National Guardsmen is dead and the other in critical condition after being targeted and shot two blocks from the White House. The shooter? A 29-year-old Afghan national who should’ve never set foot on American soil. But thanks to Biden’s brain-dead “Operation Allies Welcome,” he was welcomed in like a long-lost cousin. Turns out, the only thing he brought with him was a hatred of America and a vendetta.
Let’s rewind to 2021. The world watched in shock as Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal turned into a slow-motion disaster—Americans stranded, allies abandoned, and chaos on the tarmac. But while the Taliban threw victory parades, Biden’s team was busy airlifting 77,000 Afghan nationals to the U.S., many of them completely unvetted. That’s not conservative fearmongering—that’s straight from the Department of Homeland Security’s own inspector general report. They admitted that many evacuees posed “a risk to national security and the safety of local communities.” Translation: we had no idea who we were letting in.
And now, we’re paying the price.
The alleged shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, didn’t sneak across the border in the dead of night. No, he was practically chauffeured in by the Biden administration. This wasn’t just a bureaucratic oopsie. This was a deliberate policy choice—to fast-track tens of thousands of people from a war-torn, terror-breeding nation with less ID verification than it takes to rent a car.
And Lakanwal isn’t a one-off. Remember Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi? Another Afghan national brought in under Biden’s open-door policy, charged last year for plotting an ISIS-inspired Election Day terror attack. According to the DOJ, he was cashing out his family’s assets, buying AK-47s, and planning to light the country on fire. But hey, at least he filled out his resettlement paperwork.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Afghan evacuees literally walked off U.S. military bases before they were even vetted. That’s not conjecture—that’s Reuters. This wasn’t immigration. It was a jailbreak.
Now the FBI is investigating Lakanwal’s attack as terrorism. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delivered a gut-punch of a statement, refusing to give the shooter the fame he craves and calling out the media for vilifying our troops. “These men and women of the National Guard are mothers, fathers… children of God,” she said. “The politicians and media who continue to vilify our men and women in uniform need to take a long hard look in the mirror.” Spoiler alert: they won’t.
President Trump didn’t mince words either, calling it a “monstrous ambush” and torching Biden’s legacy of failure. “This attack underscores the single greatest national security threat facing our nation,” Trump said. He’s not wrong. Under the last administration, we had borders. Under Biden, we had revolving doors.
Trump has since slammed the brakes on all Afghan immigration requests. “Effective immediately,” the statement reads, “processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols.” In other words, the adults are back in charge.
Ben Shapiro nailed it: “This one is on Joe Biden, pure and simple.” When you open the gates and wave everyone through, don’t act surprised when one of them opens fire near the Capitol.
And yet, the same blue-check pundits who cried over the fall of Kabul won’t say a word about two American soldiers bleeding out in D.C. Maybe they’re too busy writing their next think piece on “compassionate immigration.”
Here’s the brutal truth: Biden’s Afghanistan debacle didn’t end on a Kabul runway. It followed us home—and it’s still pulling the trigger.
How many more will it take before the left admits their refugee fantasy is our real-world nightmare?