{"id":21491,"date":"2026-03-09T07:38:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/former-joint-chiefs-chair-on-iran-conflict-i-worry-about-this-getting-drawn-out\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T07:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:38:42","slug":"former-joint-chiefs-chair-on-iran-conflict-i-worry-about-this-getting-drawn-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/former-joint-chiefs-chair-on-iran-conflict-i-worry-about-this-getting-drawn-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Joint Chiefs chair on Iran conflict: &#039;I worry about this getting drawn out&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/AP110805147888-e1773007396253.jpg?w=900\" \/><br \/>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 \u2014 which has led to the deaths of seven U.S. service members as of Sunday. \u201cWe&#8217;ve got friends and allies out there. We&#8217;ve got the economy of the world, in great&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5774160-iran-us-escalation-concerns\/\">Source link <\/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 \u2014 which has led to the deaths of seven U.S. service members as of Sunday. \u201cWe&#8217;ve got friends and allies out there. We&#8217;ve got the economy of the world, in great&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}