The Stain of Afghanistan Will Stick to Biden | RealClearPolitics

Sep 21, 2021 View Original Article
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    10% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    56% Very Conservative

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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.

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  •   Conservative
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"As for illegal immigration, the border crisis is growing markedly worse, and the administration seems to have no effective response."
Positive
32% Conservative
"To do that, they must turn attention away from the cumulating failures (Afghanistan, illegal immigration, the COVID pandemic, and inflation) and achieve some big legislative wins that help voters in tangible ways."
Positive
28% Conservative
"Biden is counting on two mammoth stimulus bills to accomplish that, but success is far from certain."
Positive
16% Conservative
"One of his signature campaign themes was that he could handle the pandemic far better than Trump."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Remember, one of Biden's justifications for closing all American intelligence facilities in Afghanistan was that we could get all the information we needed with over the horizon capabilities."
Positive
8% Conservative
"There is always the chance that the public will forget these disasters, as Biden hopes."
Positive
8% Conservative
"The public's souring impression of Biden has two other legs: the spread of COVID and the surge of migrants on the U.S.-Mexican border."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Its effects will linger, and voters hold Biden responsible."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Yes, they wanted out, but they think the evacuation was badly botched and that Joe Biden is entirely responsible."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"It's even harder to believe he would have depended on the good graces of the Taliban, the Haqqani network, and al-Qaeda to get them out later, as Biden and the State Department are apparently doing."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Not if Americans are held hostage or Biden has to pay ransom to get them out."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Biden's second excuse, that he followed the unanimous recommendation of his military and national security aides, isn't holding up, either."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Still others agreed to leave Bagram only because Biden refused to deploy enough troops to protect both the air base and the U.S. Embassy in Kabul."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Will the public ever learn what the military told Biden?"
Negative
-14% Liberal
"The White House's pandemic messaging has been confused and contradictory, with Biden himself promising policies he couldn't deliver and contradicting his own medical experts."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"President Biden's supporters are hewing to one message since the disastrous Afghan exit: Voters won't remember it."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Americans set an implicit time limit for blaming bad outcomes on previous presidents, and Biden's time has run out."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Not unless Biden achieves some major policy victories that help average voters and divert attention from his failures."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"They don't believe he was trapped by Trump's policies, not after spending his entire early presidency overturning everything else Trump did."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"The intelligence community has also claimed that they were far more pessimistic about the survival of the Afghan army and government than Biden later claimed."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Intelligence officials always disagreed, so Biden must have known his claim was false when he said it."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"But there's no reason to believe Trump would have ordered the last planes to fly out while Americans were still trapped there."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Republicans will certainly press the point, and some advisers will leak that they told Biden, Don't do this."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"That analysis -- or hope, really -- could well be wrong because the evacuation left Biden with so many problems."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Not if they conclude that Biden is incompetent, a bottomless pit of bad judgment."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"The most consequential is that many independent voters are deciding that Joe Biden is simply incompetent."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"So far, Biden has provided two main excuses, but he's been caught out on both of them."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"He's certainly right that Trump's deal with the Taliban was deeply flawed."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"These problems with COVID and immigration come when Biden badly needs victories -- or, at the least, plausible explanations for the disastrous U.S. exit from Afghanistan."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"We'll never know what Trump would have done, but we do know Biden's alibis aren't convincing voters."
Positive
2% Conservative
"We'll never know what Trump would have done, but we do know Biden's alibis aren't convincing voters."
Positive
2% Conservative
"One is that it's all Trump's fault."
Negative
-44% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : As for illegal immigration, the border crisis is growing markedly worse, and the administration seems to have no effective response.
64% : To do that, they must turn attention away from the cumulating failures (Afghanistan, illegal immigration, the COVID pandemic, and inflation) and achieve some big legislative wins that help voters in tangible ways.

*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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