Johnny Joey Jones: Trump’s Making the Right Move Puling Troops Out of Syria

‘It’s completely on brand with his messaging through his campaign’

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KILMEADE: "President Trump stunningly declaring victory over ISIS in Syria while ordering U.S. troops to return home. The president just moments ago tweeting this: 'Does the USA want to be the Policeman of the Middle East, getting NOTHING but spending precious lives and trillions of dollars protecting others who, in almost all cases, do not appreciate what we are doing? Do we want to be there forever? Time for others to finally fight.' Too bad the enemy wants to fight us here. Here to react is someone who's sacrificed greatly for this nation, retired Marine Corps bomb technician Joey Jones. Joey, you know the region. You got hit in Afghanistan. A lot of the the people that you call your great friends fought in that region. Is the president making the right move?"
JONES: "Well, I think for all the information we have, yes, I believe he is. It’s completely on brand with his messaging through his campaign. I think the fact that we find him fulfilling a promise on how he'll handle foreign policy surprising, I find that a little bit reassuring compared to the unsurprising way that Bush and Obama kind of gave us these haphazard ambiguous reasons for staying in war. And if I’m surprised by the fact that he is carrying out his foreign policy the way he told us he would, I at least find assurance in that. At the end of the day, you know, I deploy to Iraq five years after President Bush declared victory there. I deployed to Afghanistan months after President Obama stated we would pull out. So I understand the necessity to establish a goal, achieve it and then want to come home, and I’m not saying that President Trump has quite done that, I think he is declaring victory at his first opportunity but I can appreciate a president who says we won’t stay there forever and follows through with it."

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