{"id":20735,"date":"2026-03-30T02:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-democrat-warns-of-boots-on-the-ground-quagmire-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T02:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:22:15","slug":"house-democrat-warns-of-boots-on-the-ground-quagmire-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-democrat-warns-of-boots-on-the-ground-quagmire-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrat warns of \u2018boots-on-the-ground quagmire\u2019 in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) on Sunday warned against putting American boots on the ground on Iran&rsquo;s mainland and Kharg Island, noting it could lead to future requests that suggest the possibility of a longer war.  President Trump hasn&rsquo;t ruled out the possibility of an invasion, but has in recent weeks suggested Operation Epic Fury was&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5806767-auchincloss-warns-against-iran-invasion\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) on Sunday warned against putting American boots on the ground on Iran&rsquo;s mainland and Kharg Island, noting it could lead to future requests that suggest the possibility of a longer war. President Trump hasn&rsquo;t ruled out the possibility of an invasion, but has in recent weeks suggested Operation Epic Fury was&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20735","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\/20735","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=20735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}