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West Virginia National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom has died from being shot near the White House by an unvetted Afghan national. She was only 20-years-old and had her whole life ahead of her.
One is almost lost for words when contemplating the sheer grimness of this story, yet it is precisely the sort of story that reveals the fatal conjunction of sentimentality and incompetence that has come to define the Western elite in our time, particularly with the Biden administration.
On Thanksgiving Day itself, as millions of Americans sat down to give thanks for the blessings of family and freedom, President Trump was obliged to announce the death of Sarah Beckstrom, who had been shot the previous day while on duty near the White House.
"I must unfortunately tell you that just seconds before I went on right now, I heard that Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the Guardsmen that we’re talking about — highly respected, young, magnificent person — started service in 2023, outstanding in every way, she’s just passed away," President Trump said, his voice heavy with the knowledge that a young life had been snuffed out for the apparent sake of jihad, as it was reported that the shooter yelled "Allahu akbar," or 'Allah is greater.'
"She's no longer with us, she's looking down on us right now,” Trump continued. "Her parents are with her. This just happened. She was savagely attacked, she's dead, not with us. Incredible person. Outstanding in every single way, in every department. Just horrible."
When President Trump gets this hyperbolic, you can imagine he is truly feeling the loss of this young woman.
Only hours earlier her father, Gary Beckstrom, had spoken the words no parent should ever have to utter: "I’m holding her hand right now," he said. "She has a mortal wound. It's not going to be a recovery."
Sarah had, of course, volunteered to stand duty over the Thanksgiving holiday precisely so that her comrades might spend the day with their own families. A small act of selflessness, one might have thought, in a country that still pretends to honor such things.
And what do we find at the end of this chain of events? The alleged shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is a 29-year-old Afghan national, who arrived in the United States in 2021 under the auspices of Joe Biden's much-vaunted "Operation Allies Welcome," a program that, in its boundless generosity, managed to import some 77,000 Afghans into America with what can only be described as minimal scrutiny.
The consequences of such reckless virtue-signalling are no longer theoretical. They have names. They have grieving parents. They have a 20-year-old girl who will never again sit at a Thanksgiving table.
As Attorney General Pam Bondi observed: "She volunteered, as did many of those guardsmen and women, so other people could be home with their families. Yet, now, their families are in hospital rooms with them while they are fighting for their lives."
And Jeanine Pirro, the United States Attorney for D.C., added with understandable bitterness: "They answered the call, they took the charge, they volunteered, they put their lives on the line for people they don’t even know, and that unfortunately is becoming a reality more and more for the members of law enforcement."
One hardly needs to spell out the lesson here, though it is a lesson that certain quarters remain determined never to learn. When a society decides that the most important thing is to appear compassionate, when it confuses open borders with moral superiority, and vetting with xenophobia, then sooner or later it will pay the price in the most excruciating currency of all: the blood of its own daughters.
Sarah Beckstrom gave her life so that others might enjoy a holiday. The very least her country can do now is to ask, without apology and without euphemism, how it came to be that the man accused of taking it was ever allowed on American soil in the first place.
Only hours earlier her father, Gary Beckstrom, had spoken the words no parent should ever have to utter: "I’m holding her hand right now," he said. "She has a mortal wound. It's not going to be a recovery."
Sarah had, of course, volunteered to stand duty over the Thanksgiving holiday precisely so that her comrades might spend the day with their own families. A small act of selflessness, one might have thought, in a country that still pretends to honor such things.
And what do we find at the end of this chain of events? The alleged shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is a 29-year-old Afghan national, who arrived in the United States in 2021 under the auspices of Joe Biden's much-vaunted "Operation Allies Welcome," a program that, in its boundless generosity, managed to import some 77,000 Afghans into America with what can only be described as minimal scrutiny.
The consequences of such reckless virtue-signalling are no longer theoretical. They have names. They have grieving parents. They have a 20-year-old girl who will never again sit at a Thanksgiving table.
As Attorney General Pam Bondi observed: "She volunteered, as did many of those guardsmen and women, so other people could be home with their families. Yet, now, their families are in hospital rooms with them while they are fighting for their lives."
And Jeanine Pirro, the United States Attorney for D.C., added with understandable bitterness: "They answered the call, they took the charge, they volunteered, they put their lives on the line for people they don’t even know, and that unfortunately is becoming a reality more and more for the members of law enforcement."
One hardly needs to spell out the lesson here, though it is a lesson that certain quarters remain determined never to learn. When a society decides that the most important thing is to appear compassionate, when it confuses open borders with moral superiority, and vetting with xenophobia, then sooner or later it will pay the price in the most excruciating currency of all: the blood of its own daughters.
Sarah Beckstrom gave her life so that others might enjoy a holiday. The very least her country can do now is to ask, without apology and without euphemism, how it came to be that the man accused of taking it was ever allowed on American soil in the first place.
And finally, how can people on the Left, simply due to their hatred of Trump and half of America, use this horrific act of what appears to be Islamic jihad, to attack conservatives.
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