Pentagon Chief Concerned About Threats to US Troops in Middle East

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Published Oct 23, 2023
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. 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.


Policy Leaning Analysis

This article includes the following sentiments, providing an average bias score of 36% Conservative:

  • 1 positive sentiment and 1 negative sentiment for Government Spending.
  • 1 positive sentiment and 2 negative sentiments for Iran.


Politician Portrayal Analysis:

This article includes the following Politician Portrayal sentiments, providing an average sentiment of 52% Negative and bias score of 52% Conservative:

4 negative sentiments and 1 positive sentiment for Antony Blinken
1 positive sentiment for Joe Biden


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Government Spending
Iran

Politicians:

Antony Blinken
Joe Biden

Sentiments

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30% "Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken participate in the Peace, Security, and Governance Forum during the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in ..."
18% Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken participate in the Peace, Security, and Governance Forum during the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in ..."
6% "Following detailed discussions with President Biden on recent escalations by Iran and its proxy forces across the Middle East Region, today I directed a ..."
6% "Following detailed discussions with President Biden on recent escalations by Iran and its proxy forces across the Middle East Region, today I directed a ..."
-6% our advice is: don't."nnMr. Blinken said on Oct. 22 that there must be a way to ensure that Hamas can't carry out a similar ..."
-10% "In Syria, where Hamas' main regional backer Iran has a military presence, Israeli missiles hit Damascus and Aleppo international airports early on Oct. 22, ..."
-18% "(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)Top U.S. officials see the prospect of a significant escalation in attacks on U.S. troops in the Middle East and of Iran ..."
-22% it's something that needs to be worked on even as Israel is dealing with the current threat," Mr. Blinken said, noting that Israel "cannot ..."
-26% Mr. Blinken told NBC News that he hopes more hostages will be freed by Hamas, a State Department-designated terrorist group that attacked Israel on ..."
-46% "Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Oct. 22 that the United States doesn't want to see the conflict ..."

We have listed the top 10 sentiments. More sentiments do exist. Please review the full article for more information.


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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken participate in the Peace, Security, and Governance Forum during the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington on Dec. 13, 2022.
53% : "Following detailed discussions with President Biden on recent escalations by Iran and its proxy forces across the Middle East Region, today I directed a series of additional steps to further strengthen the Department of Defense posture in the region," Mr. Austin said in a statement.
45% : In Syria, where Hamas' main regional backer Iran has a military presence, Israeli missiles hit Damascus and Aleppo international airports early on Oct. 22, putting both out of service and killing two workers, Syrian state media said.
41% : (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)Top U.S. officials see the prospect of a significant escalation in attacks on U.S. troops in the Middle East and of Iran seeking to widen the Israel-Hamas war, the top U.S. diplomat and defense officials said on Oct. 22.
27% : Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Oct. 22 that the United States doesn't want to see the conflict spread and that recent U.S. deployments to the region were designed to prevent that from occurring.

*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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