Presidential Mideast Failures Didn't Start with Biden

Aug 28, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    94% Extremely Conservative

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    78% Extremely Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

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  •   Conservative
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"Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Saudi Arabia"
Negative
-4% Liberal
"The net effect of the removal of Saddam was that the Shia Muslims in Iraq gained more influence which reduced tensions between Iran and Iraq since Iran is a Shia Muslim country."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"It also was a mistake in Iraq to allow Shi'ites to gain so much power in the post-Saddam government (which automatically extended the influence of Iran), and it was a mistake to allow the Taliban to control the mountainous and rural areas of Afghanistan and to receive almost unlimited aid from Pakistan."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"While Saddam, a Sui Muslim, was in charge of Iraq at the time, eventually, Bush would depose him, and the Shia Muslim majority in Iraq would come to power, and, because of their common religious beliefs with Iran, would have an affinity with Iran, our avowed enemy."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Long before George Bush, it was a mistake for the Reagan administration to have taken sides against Iran in the Iraq-Iran war."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Donald Trump's initiatives, it was apparent to me that with his agreement to leave Afghanistan by May, he also had a fantasy of escape not very different from Biden's."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Donald Trump's initiatives, it was apparent to me that with his agreement to leave Afghanistan by May, he also had a fantasy of escape not very different from Biden's."
Positive
4% Conservative
"But the Obama administration was sure it could do better than Pres."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Obama's red line, and instead of a violent response, it received a lollipop of forgiveness."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Only the third dictator, Gen. Abdul al-Sisi, who kicked out Morsi, saved America and the world from the plotting and colossal blunder of Obama, who this writer believes not only endorsed Morsi, but plotted with Morsi to overthrow Mubarak."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Biden is destroying Afghanistan's citizenry as well as our own people and the treasure we have left there."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Obama for carrying out his Muslim Brotherhood takeover."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"If Biden has screwed up getting us out, Bush messed up significantly when he went in."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"Joe Biden is an incompetent individual."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"Frankly, this writer considers the problems we are facing today as much his fault as Biden's."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"Obama and Hillary Clinton initiated that debacle as part of enacting the Arab Spring, which name merely expressed their fantasy about what the Arab-Muslim world could or should be."
Negative
-62% Liberal
"Obama and Hillary Clinton initiated that debacle as part of enacting the Arab Spring, which name merely expressed their fantasy about what the Arab-Muslim world could or should be."
Negative
-62% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Saudi Arabia
40% : The net effect of the removal of Saddam was that the Shia Muslims in Iraq gained more influence which reduced tensions between Iran and Iraq since Iran is a Shia Muslim country.
39% : It also was a mistake in Iraq to allow Shi'ites to gain so much power in the post-Saddam government (which automatically extended the influence of Iran), and it was a mistake to allow the Taliban to control the mountainous and rural areas of Afghanistan and to receive almost unlimited aid from Pakistan.
39% : While Saddam, a Sunni Muslim, was in charge of Iraq at the time, eventually, Bush would depose him, and the Shia Muslim majority in Iraq would come to power, and, because of their common religious beliefs with Iran, would have an affinity with Iran, our avowed enemy.
33% : Long before George Bush, it was a mistake for the Reagan administration to have taken sides against Iran in the Iraq-Iran war.

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