Donald Rumsfeld's Legacy: A Warning Against American Retreat

Jul 06, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    56% Very Conservative

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    22% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    98% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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"But all he achieved instead was the empowerment of Iran, the most lethal rogue state in the world."
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0% Conservative
"One reason why Obama wanted to bring Iran in from the cold through the 2015 nuclear deal was to enable the U.S. to get out of the Middle East."
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-18% Liberal
"Regarding Iran, the Biden administration's palpable eagerness to reinstitute the 2015 nuclear deal has merely provoked ever-increasing Iranian intransigence and repeated attacks on American interests."
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-32% Liberal
"In Iraq and Syria, the Biden administration forlornly aounced early this week that it had carried out further airstrikes on Iran-backed militia groups to disrupt and deter the increasingly sophisticated drone strikes on U.S. positions."
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-6% Liberal
"During the U.S. election campaign, President Joe Biden affirmed his intention to end the forever wars to which the U.S. had been party."
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-14% Liberal
"One reason why Obama wanted to bring Iran in from the cold through the 2015 nuclear deal was to enable the U.S. to get out of the Middle East."
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-12% Liberal
"And the Biden administration is learning this -- or failing to learn it -- the hard way."
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-28% Liberal
"What Rumsfeld's foes overlook is that Saddam had long been viewed as such a danger to America that a law mandating regime change in Iraq had been introduced by President Bill Clinton in 1998."
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-32% Liberal
"Regarding Iran, the Biden administration's palpable eagerness to reinstitute the 2015 nuclear deal has merely provoked ever-increasing Iranian intransigence and repeated attacks on American interests."
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-16% Liberal
"Thus, President Barack Obama laid down red lines against Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons in Syria which Obama then proceeded to ignore, with unspeakable atrocities occurring in Syria as a result -- and the U.S. being viewed as a paper tiger."
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-36% Liberal
"Now the Biden administration is panicking."
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-40% Liberal
"In Afghanistan, where President Donald Trump demonstrated his own isolationist mindset by unwisely aouncing a withdrawal of American troops, Biden aounced he was accelerating this timetable."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"In Afghanistan, where President Donald Trump demonstrated his own isolationist mindset by unwisely aouncing a withdrawal of American troops, Biden aounced he was accelerating this timetable."
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-4% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : But all he achieved instead was the empowerment of Iran, the most lethal rogue state in the world.
41% : One reason why Obama wanted to bring Iran in from the cold through the 2015 nuclear deal was to enable the U.S. to get out of the Middle East.
34% : Regarding Iran, the Biden administration's palpable eagerness to reinstitute the 2015 nuclear deal has merely provoked ever-increasing Iranian intransigence and repeated attacks on American interests.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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