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The shooting of two National Guardsmen by an Afghan refugee, who reportedly drove 40 hours to commit that awful crime, was an appalling act of madness. The families of these guardsmen deserve our deepest sympathies.

But the response from the Trump administration — casting suspicion on all Afghans who aided U.S. forces, and were admitted here because of that service — is unjust. One unstable gunman does not represent the thousands of others who risked their lives for the U.S. mission

Ordering 500 more Guardsmen to Washington, D.C., despite a federal judge’s ruling that the original deployment was unlawful, only turns a tragedy into political theater. The attacked troopers should have been home for Thanksgiving.

From the beginning, America has

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