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This was an entirely foreseeable tragedy. Sooner or later it was going to happen. Trump had been warned by military commanders that placing troops in combat gear in major cities was a provocation that represented an easy \u201ctarget of opportunity<\/a>\u201d for grievance-based violence. On November 26, Rahmanullah Lakanwal<\/a>,\u00a0An Aghan refugee who had been admitted to the US since hed had worked for the CIA during the Afghan war, shot two National Guard service members in Washington DC, one of them fatally.<\/p>\n The Trumpian fact distortion machine sprang into action immediately. In an X post, Homeland Security Secretary, Christy Noem stated that Lakanwal \u201cwas one of the many unvetted, mass paroled into the United States.\u201d Vice Presiden J.D.Vance, not to be outdone, claimed that Lakanwal came into the US \u201cunvetted.\u201d FBI Director Kash Patel claimed that there had ben \u201czero vetting\u201d of the individual. Trump suspended \u201cindefinitely\u201d all migration from Third World countries claiming that all these \u201ccuckoos\u201d are overrunning the United States.<\/p>\n As you would expect from this crowd, this was entirely false. Lankawal came to the US in 2021, during the first Trump term, as part of \u201cOperation Allies Welcome\u201d for Afghanis who had worked for the US in Afghanistan and who would face incarceration or death by the new regime. Before that he was on a US base in Qatar, where he was thoroughly vetted at least three times by Homeland Security and the CIA. He was granted asylum earlier this year, under the second Trump administration. The strained efforts to shove this into Biden\u2019s shoes would be laughable, if the underlying dishonesty was not so serious.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Lankanwal makes use of his constitutional right not to speak to his interrogators. We don\u2019t know what made him do this terrible and heinous act. Eventually he may explain himself, if he even knows. What concerns me more, and what is more worrisome for the future of the country, are lies that are being spread by the administration and the over-the-top response to what is really a tragedy that had been foreseeable and that troop commanders had warned against. Homeland Security had wiped the warnings aside calling them \u201cmerely speculative\u201d.<\/p>\n It is not speculation anymore. The performative display of military might by bringing National Gard troops from red states to display their might in democratic cities has cost\u00a0Sarah Beckstrom, member of the West Virginia National Guard in Washington, her life. It is a tragic death, entirely foreseeable, and the current administration that ordered the troops to Washington is largely responsible for it.<\/p>\n We should all pray for Sarah and her family. May she rest in peace.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was an entirely foreseeable tragedy. Sooner or later it was going to happen. Trump had been warned by military commanders that placing troops in combat gear in major cities was a provocation that represented an easy \u201ctarget of opportunity\u201d for grievance-based violence. On November 26, Rahmanullah Lakanwal,\u00a0An Aghan refugee who had been admitted to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donaldtrump","category-uspolitics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}