FOX News host and retired combat veteran Joey Jones delivered a message on “The Big Weekend Show” to President Donald Trump and military leadership.

JOEY JONES: I’m going to say this, I’m very torn on this completely. I’m personally torn on this because I sat beside Pete Hegseth for years on a couch on FOX and Friends when they needed me. I’ve had a lot of conversations with him before he was confirmed as Secretary of War. I know what’s in his heart and I know what’s in his experience. I’ve also watched President Trump for more than a decade now be a president who said no new wars, no forever wars and back that up, killing Soleimani with a missile, taking out Maduro, Midnight Hammer. The track record is there, ending ISIS in weeks, all right, so the track record is there and I don’t think he’s changed, I don’t think he’s owned by Benjamin Netanyahu, I think there are complexities to this that you’re going to get criticized over. But I’m going to say this, President Trump, Pete Hegseth, General Caine, the rest of the generals, if you send our men and women into that country to kill our bad guys, to take, to spill their blood because they deserve it, I don’t even 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 people 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. That’s all that will work. We won every battle in Iraq and Afghanistan. We lost the war because our politicians don’t have a spine, don’t be those people.

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