Victor Davis Hanson Says South Korea Forgot Who Defended Their Freedom

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson said on Fox News Tuesday that South Korea’s government appeared to forget the heavy price Americans paid to secure its freedom.

Hanson said on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” that South Korea’s reaction to U.S. immigration enforcement efforts exposed a “larger problem” in how the world, and many Americans, view the country’s role as a defender of freedom.

“I was a little shocked at the reaction of the South Korean government,” Hanson said. “For 75 years, the United States, at the cost of 36,000 lives, created South Korea’s freedom and protected it. I thought they wouldn’t jump the gun and would restrain themselves a little bit, but they didn’t.”

Hanson’s comments followed criticism from South Korea over visa-related immigration enforce