Victor Davis Hanson: ‘We Never Get Any Thanks for What We Do’.

Of course not, leftist socialist democrat-inspired illegals want you to work two or more jobs to pay the taxes to support their lazy a**es and continue to financially support their crimes against American citizens.

and........... thanks to democrats, taxpayers even pay for free lawyers to keep the terrorists living a life of luxury drinking Colt45 and binge-watching CNN all day.....

Until they go out to American whorehouses, to keep their own oppressed and mistreated women pure .......then they break into businesses, loot stores and burn them out as part of the democrat "burn it down, build it back better"........except their terrorist a**es don't know how to build anything.

But they know how to pronounce "Racist"

They can prove that you are a dumass because you continue to vote for democrats who buy their votes with free taxpayer money and you haven't got one bit smarter since you were born.

Why should they give thanks to idiots like you?

Victor Davis Hanson | December 16, 2025
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Victor Davis Hanson, a senior contributor for The Daily Signal, is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and host of "The Victor Davis Hanson Show." His website, The Blade of Perseus, features columns, lectures, and exclusive content for subscribers. Contact him at authorvdh@gmail.com.
In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss former President Joe Biden’s failure to make sure our adversaries in Syria paid a cost for attacking Americans, and the failure of so many immigrants to say “thank you” for all we do.

Editor’s note: This is a transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to VDH’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Jack Fowler: [President] Donald Trump tells ISIS we will retaliate after the ambush that killed three U.S. troops in Syria. Victor, anything you want to say about that?

Victor Davis Hanson: I don’t know if we have the whole story, but it seems to be somebody that was supposedly training with them, or they knew, or somebody in the government. That happened a lot in Afghanistan. It just raises the same question.
I think we have 900 soldiers in Syria. And I think the former ISIS members who have now flipped to get more money from America, and are trying to form a government in Syria and who ousted the Assad dynasty are supposedly pro-American, BS BS BS and they are supposedly, according to Trump, outraged at this and will punish them....as long as taxpayer money keeps flowing.

We lost deterrence in Syria during the Biden administration.

I’m not blaming comatose Joe solely, but for four years they staged over 130 attacks originating in Syria on American bases, security positions, and we didn’t do much of anything. And we basically established this principle that if you want to kill an American, nothing’s going to happen to you and you can collect money from both sides....no problem.
So, Donald Trump is going to have to find a way to disabuse people of that, and we’ll see what he does. But if he can’t, then you can’t put Americans over there as sitting ducks like we did in Lebanon. And [President Ronald] Reagan took everybody out of Lebanon. That probably was a bad sign, a reaction to the destruction of the embassy and the barracks in 1983.

But if you are going to put Americans over there, then you have to tell their enemies, “If you kill these people, we’re going to make life very uncomfortable for you.” We really should go in there and clean out the infestation and not say a word. Dead terrorists won't reproduce other terrorists