{"id":51205,"date":"2026-04-04T09:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/51205\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:55:11","slug":"opinion-hegseths-firing-of-top-general-about-culture-war-not-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/51205\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Hegseth\u2019s firing of top general about culture war, not Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ODPWUSKXSFBBXLUH7ABOAXWTNQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">In the <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116147082884192486\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">early morning hours<\/a> of Feb. 28, President Donald Trump announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/02\/28\/us-israel-military-operation-epic-fury-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">biggest U.S. war<\/a> in more than two decades. What was Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth doing the day before? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.war.gov\/News\/News-Stories\/Article\/Article\/4417012\/hegseth-says-scouting-america-support-to-continue-upon-orgs-commitment-to-drop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Announcing a settlement<\/a> with Scouting America, formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America, to discontinue some diversity initiatives. Hegseth did not succeed in getting the group to kick out girls or revert to its earlier name, but he did convince it to end its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scouting.org\/merit-badges\/citizenship-in-society\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Citizenship in Society<\/a>\u201d merit badge, earned by scouts who \u201crealize the benefits of diversity, equity, inclusion, and ethical leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the early morning hours of Feb. 28, President Donald Trump announced the biggest U.S. war in more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,888],"class_list":["post-51205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-iran","tag-partner-exclude"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116345839376413063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}