Fox’s Joey Jones Warns Trump ‘Simply Dropping Bombs’ on Iran Strategy Isn’t Working After Two Soldiers Killed

Fox News contributor and Marine combat veteran Joey Jones warned on Fox News that President Donald Trump’s strategy of “simply dropping bombs” on Iran is not working — after news broke Saturday that two American service members have been killed in the escalating conflict.

Jones, who still serves in the Marine Reserves, joined Fox News on Saturday shortly after U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced two U.S. service members were killed by Iran and another service member is currently missing in action.

Jones called the lost service members “heroes” and “gladiators among us,” and argued most Americans are asking how Iran’s ballistic missile strikes are “possible” when U.S. officials have repeatedly said Iran’s military is “decimated.”

He said:

People at home don’t get a chance to have those answers, to understand if a nuclear facility is fully decimated because you can’t get to the material easy, or if it’s fully decimated because you killed all of nuclear scientists that were using it. Those are the nuances that we don’t have an opportunity to understand. What we do understand very well is when two Americans are killed. Most Americans say, how is that possible?

Jones argued it may be time for Trump to shake up his strategy and drop a “big stick” because “simply dropping bombs from the air isn’t stopping them from doing what they want:”

When we talk in hyperbole and grand statements, sometimes reality hits us in the face, and we lose two Americans in Jordan where most of us thought that wasn’t really on the table anymore. And when I say most of it, I mean Americans. Not necessarily myself. That is the balance, balancing act that this administration is going to have to walk if they’re continuing this war. And I don’t mean continuing to escalate it. That’s something Iran has done. We put an MOU [Memorandum of Understanding] on the table. We put parameters in place to get away from attacking anything, and they started attacking ships. But, you know, I often say that President Trump speaks loudly and carries a big stick. Right now might be the time that the big stick part matters most because simply dropping bombs from the air isn’t stopping them from doing what they want.

Aishah Hasnie asked what exactly that “big stick” looks like and Jones laid out multiple strategies, including completely walking away from the diplomatic table:

I think that is the question, Aishah, what is the big stick? I think, you know, the biggest thing they could do to show they mean business is to retract fully from all diplomatic efforts, pull all the comms back, be strategic, not tactical, meaning picking your targets methodically, not just a bunch of them at once, and scaring the will out of the leaders of Iran. That takes time. Time is not on our side. We’re running to November right now, running to 2028 politically, we’r running away from the gas pump. It takes time, a little bit of leverage, and I think both of those things the president has less and less of every week this moves on… People appreciate and respond to consistency. I may not like what you’re doing, but you’re consistent in it, so I now you believe in it, so I know it’s a means to an end. I think that’s what our government,by and large, has not been for 20 some odd years of fighting in the Middle East, and I think that’s something this administration could look hard at and is make a decision on.

The U.S. launched seven straight days of strikes against Iran this week following officials blasting the country for breaking a temporary peace agreement by continuing to target and attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

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