Fox News contributor: “We should have killed every one of them. If we've learned anything, it's take no prisoners on the battlefield. If they have a gun in their hand, put a bullet in their chest.”
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Citation From the August 17, 2021 edition of Fox News' The Faulkner Focus
HARRIS FAULKNER (FOX NEWS ANCHOR): Joining me now, Joey Jones, Fox News contributor, Fox Nation host, and retired Marine bomb technician, and our friend here on The Faulkner Focus. Joey, we were together on Outnumbered yesterday as certain things were unfolding. Now, we get this detail that some of these men who are in charge — I mean, Biden should be so familiar with who he is dealing with here.
JOEY JONES (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): Yeah, we should have killed every one of them. If we've learned anything, it's take no prisoners on the battlefield. If they have a gun in their hand, put a bullet in their chest. That's what we've learned.
We're not going to be allowed to gather human intelligence because, you know, that process is considered torture now. So what's the point in bringing any of them in? All they're going to do is sit there, get fat, become martyrs for everyone on the ground, and then we're going to release them back so they can stir them up and they can take over Afghanistan. Because that's exactly what's happened.
We traded five leaders, five people with tons of blood on their hands, for a traitor who got other Americans killed, and the Obama administration passed it off as a victory. They wanted us to celebrate it. They were surprised we didn't have a ticker tape parade. They were completely bumfuddled that we didn't celebrate it from one coast to the other.
You know, we all know, kind of, the impact that Marcus Luttrell has had on our military. The idea that he's a lone survivor, somebody who was captured by the Taliban and made it home, and, you know, today different people have different opinions, but at the time we celebrated that. Think of multiplying that times five and then times another hundred because they don't — it's a religious thing for them. It's all or nothing for them. These aren't just people who we released. In their mind, God set them free. Their God came through for them in their righteous cause.
So the impact of these five is much greater than us bringing home any POW whether it be Marcus Luttrell or a traitor like Bowe Bergdahl, and we sit here and we wonder why we can't win this war. Because we're not willing to. We haven't been willing to in a long time.
I'm not saying we should be unethical or immoral, but our moral superiority to date has just gotten more Americans killed. So at some point we have to fight a war, which means kill the enemy, which means why did the Obama administration care more about the living conditions and health of people in Guantanamo Bay than maybe vets sitting in an Arizona VA? I would love to have the answer to that. Why is that a case?
I'm really upset by this, and I'm not just trying to play partisan politics. I don't know if President Trump has set some folks free from Guantanamo Bay, and if I find out he has or I see that report, I'll come on here and say similar things about him or President Bush or anyone else. This isn't partisan for me. This is 330 million Americans against a ruling class in Washington, D.C., and a bunch of generals that care more about building their career than winning a war. And I'm tired of it and we deserve better.
FAULKNER: Well, I'll tell you right now, it is hard to think of being on that tarmac and trying to get on to one of those planes and you're an American.
JONES: We've got thousands of troops guarding—
FAULKNER: I mean, you've got to try to wade your way through all these people on the tarmac now and we've got a vet who's there to get our own people out and the Taliban says you know what, we'll just sit out here and protect the perimeter. What happens if they change their minds, Joey?
[CROSSTALK]
JONES: Harris, think about this scenario.
FAULKNER: What if they decide to engage?
JONES: Yeah, think about this scenario. We have a few thousand troops surrounded by, for what I know to be probably 10,000 or more, tens of thousands of Taliban, in a powder keg stand-off, and we're relying on the Taliban to uphold their word that innocent American civilians can get through their checkpoints to that airport. What happens the moment the Taliban decides one of those people that we're trying to get through shouldn't go through? What happens in that moment? That's what I want to know.
I would love for the president to get away from Camp David on a vacation and come answer that question. We're negotiating with the Taliban to uphold their word? Great. Sounds awesome. Yeah, that's how you fight a war. That's how you exit Afghanistan. Twenty years and this is the best you can do? You are an embarrassment. You were VP for eight years of this war? No.
FAULKNER: Joey Jones —
JONES: I'm sorry, but — thank you.
FAULKNER: No, never apologize. I mean, we need some of that to go on at the White House press briefing today. All you're doing is asking the questions that every single American who served like yourself deserves to know. Those gold star families deserve to know. The children of the people who served deserve to know. They're great questions and we will press on. I'm glad you are in focus. Thank you.