{"id":19770,"date":"2026-03-09T04:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-joint-chiefs-chair-on-iran-conflict-i-worry-about-this-getting-drawn-out\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T04:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:20:44","slug":"former-joint-chiefs-chair-on-iran-conflict-i-worry-about-this-getting-drawn-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-joint-chiefs-chair-on-iran-conflict-i-worry-about-this-getting-drawn-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Joint Chiefs chair on Iran conflict: &#8216;I worry about this getting drawn out&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Mike Mullen said Sunday that he has anxiety around the potential for a lasting U.S. conflict in Iran &mdash; which has led to the deaths of seven U.S. service members as of Sunday. &ldquo;We&#8217;ve got friends and allies out there&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5774160-iran-us-escalation-concerns\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Mike Mullen said Sunday that he has anxiety around the potential for a lasting U.S. conflict in Iran &mdash; which has led to the deaths of seven U.S. service members as of Sunday. &ldquo;We&#8217;ve got friends and allies out there&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}