Fox News Host Has Warning For Trump Admin Over Iran War | EUROtoday

Fox News host Johnny “Joey” Jones provided some stern recommendation to his former colleague, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and President Donald Trump because the Iran battle stretched into its fifth week.

Appearing on Fox’s “The Big Weekend Show” Sunday, Jones identified the restricted “tolerance” most Americans have for international conflicts whereas urging Trump and Hegseth to “get the hell out of” Iran as shortly as potential.

“I had a lot of conversations with [Hegseth] … I know what’s in his heart and in his experience,” he defined. “I’ve also watched President Trump for more than a decade, who’s said, ‘No new wars,’ ‘No forever wars,’ and backed that up. The track record is there. I don’t think he’s changed.”

Addressing Trump, Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine straight, he added, “If you send our men and women into that country to kill our bad guys, to spill their blood because they deserve it, I don’t have to agree with you on it, just please do this: Don’t nation-build. Don’t win hearts and minds. Don’t spread democracy. Spill the blood of the evil that deserve to die without our hands tied and without a PR campaign and get the hell out of there. That’s all we have tolerance for.”

Jones, a Marine Corps veteran who misplaced each of his legs whereas deployed in Afghanistan in 2010, has beforehand been important of the Iran battle. Earlier this month, he informed Fox News viewers it was OK to query Trump’s motivations relating to the U.S.’ joint army strikes with Israel on Iran.

“The American people should ask questions and demand answers when our blood is shed,” he mentioned, earlier than including: “We accept, in this country, zero casualties.”

Elsewhere in his “Big Weekend Show” chat on Sunday, Jones additionally drew parallels between the battle in Iran ― dubbed Operation Epic Fury ― and former international conflicts.

“We won every battle in Iraq and Afghanistan. We lost the war because our politicians don’t have a spine,” he mentioned. “Don’t be those people.”

Jones’ remarks come on the heels of quite a few polls which have proven that the majority Americans disapprove of the U.S. army operation in Iran, with their opinions divided starkly alongside occasion traces. A Pew Research Center survey unveiled final week discovered that 54% of respondents imagine the battle will proceed for at the very least six extra months, and 40% really feel it’s going to make the U.S. much less secure in the long term.

As of Monday, at the very least 13 U.S. service members have been killed in Iran’s counterattacks thus far.