The Guardian Article Rating'Focus on empathy': Barnaby Joyce criticises Matt Canavan over Afghanistan comments
Aug 16, 2021 View Original Article
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| "There are more than 130 Australians in Afghanistan, working in the United Nations, in non government organisations, while others have been granted humanitarian visas, or are in the process of applying for protection." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "In September 2020, Baradar was pictured with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who 'urged the Taliban to seize this opportunity to forge a political settlement and reach a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire.'" | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Former President Trump arrived at Trump Tower, Manhattan, on Monday." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "CNN military analyst John Kirby, who would become Pentagon spokesman under Biden, said such a meeting would have given the Taliban 'a boost of political legitimacy that they don't deserve at this stage in negotiations and would be a huge propaganda victory for them, not to mention a slap at the Afghan government and President Ghani.'" | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Biden's Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recommended to Biden that up to 4500 troops should stay in Afghanistan, according to the New York Times." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Those warnings show how both President Biden and Trump, Democrat and Republican, believed what they wanted to believe in order bring home U.S. soldiers." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Those warnings show how both President Biden and Trump, Democrat and Republican, believed what they wanted to believe in order bring home U.S. soldiers." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Afghan Study Group report warns against withdrawing 'irresponsibly'With Trump's deadline looming, Biden ordered a review of Afghanistan policy." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Afghan Study Group report warns against withdrawing 'irresponsibly'With Trump's deadline looming, Biden ordered a review of Afghanistan policy." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Trump negotiates deal with the Taliban setting U.S. withdrawal date for May 1, 2021Negotiators in Doha reached an agreement after 18 months of stop-start talks." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Biden aounces withdrawal will be completed by Sept. 11" | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "-- we'll do it responsibly, deliberately, and safely,' said Biden as he aounced the departure of U.S. troops from Afghanistan'We caot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan, hoping to create ideal conditions for, and expecting a different result,' he said." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Regional experts expressed amazement that Biden had tied the withdrawal to the aiversary of 9/11." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Critics said the Trump administration had believed what it needed to believe in order to bring home the troops." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "President Biden's most senior advisers say there were stued at the way Taliban fighters were able to advance across Afghanistan while government forces melted away or simply laid down their arms." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Biden explained his decision in terms of the success of hunting down Osama bin Laden and questioning whether staying in Afghanistan would do anything to make the world safer, given how threats had spread around the world." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller aounced that the U.S. will reduce troop levels in Afghanistan to 2500 by mid-January, as officials tried to press on with Trump's plan of bringing soldiers home in the final weeks of his presidency." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Then on Feb 3., a Congressionally appointed panel recommended that the Biden administration slow the U.S. withdrawal, delay the May exit deadline and instead put its diplomatic weight behind achieving a deal between the Taliban and the Kabul government." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "After nine rounds of talks between US officials and Taliban representatives in Doha, the capital of the Gulf state of Qatar, President Trump dropped a Twitter bombshell." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Despite the warnings, Biden aounced the complete withdrawal of forces by the 20th aiversary of the 9/11 attacks." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Reports of government troops melting away in the face of the Taliban advance and elders negotiating the peaceful handover of cities and towns, did nothing to stop the Biden administration telling Afghan leaders to stand and fight." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Trump cancels secret Camp David meeting with the Taliban" | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Rep. Mac Thornberry, ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, said: 'I believe that these additional reductions of American troops from terrorist areas are a mistake.'" | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Trump's former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who was fired last year after telling Trump that his military commanders were opposed to a drawdown, said both presidents were guilty of the same mistakes." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "He has kept up a barrage of criticism of President Biden for his handling of the Afghanistan crisis." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
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50% : There are more than 130 Australians in Afghanistan, working in the United Nations, in non government organisations, while others have been granted humanitarian visas, or are in the process of applying for protection.*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.