Michael Barbaro

Quote, "...some will say that the shooting in downtown Washington means that the United States should never admit refugees like Lock and Wall."

But the alternative is abandoning allies who assist Americans in war.

And the editorial goes on to say... Basically...

This editorial asks, what happens when the U.S.

just leaves people behind on the battlefield?

Right.

And I think it's worth saying just how much the Wall Street Journal editorial and Stephen Miller's statements completely talk past each other.

Because the editorial is saying that American credibility and the future of our foreign policy requires us to keep our commitments to those who risk their lives for the U.S., that it's foundational to our ability to function in the world.

Miller's statement completely bypasses that and says broken people from broken societies are just an existential danger to the U.S., therefore we can't let them in.

But what Miller's argument doesn't grapple with at all is the reality that America played a part and a pretty big part in breaking Afghanistan in the first place.

Right.

It's kind of an open embrace of collective punishment because in Lock and Wall, we clearly have someone who, and we don't quite understand the mechanics of it, but becomes at some point in his life radicalized.

But he's just one of thousands, if not tens of thousands of Afghans who the U.S.

previously made a commitment to, to protect and bring to the U.S.

And

Trump and Stephen Miller are now saying, because one of them did this thing, none of them can come to the U.S.

Just to end, Hamed, I don't want to entirely lose sight of the National Guard and its place in this story.

The second guardsman who was shot remains in critical condition in a hospital.

And this deployment of the National Guard in Washington remains a source of really profound controversy.

Mohamed, thank you very much.