Remarks by President Biden on the Way Forward in Afghanistan

  • Date: April 16, 2021
  • Speaker(s):
Average objectivity: 0.10
Average polarity: 0.37

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Distribution of sentiment scores from sentences
How many times certain sentiment score repeated itself.

Biden

Average polarity: 0.10
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Average subjectivity: 0.37
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Most used part of speech

Nouns
  1. years - 13
  2. iraq - 5
  3. presence - 5
  4. nation - 5
  5. taliban - 5
Verbs
  1. know - 6
  2. went - 5
  3. had - 5
  4. made - 4
  5. stay - 4
Adjectives
  1. american - 8
  2. more - 8
  3. terrorist - 6
  4. many - 6
  5. military - 6
Adverbs
  1. not - 22
  2. just - 5
  3. now - 5
  4. never - 4
  5. well - 4

Sentences sentiment

Most positive
  1. And they’ll continue to fight valiantly, on behalf of the Afghans, at great cost.0.8
  2. Good afternoon.0.7
  3. I’m not hearing any good answers to these questions.0.7
  4. I also know there are many who will argue that we should stay — stay fighting in Afghanistan because withdrawal would damage America’s credibility and weaken America’s influence in the world.0.5
  5. Since then, our reasons for remaining in Afghanistan are becoming increasingly unclear, even as the terrorist threat that we went to fight evolved.0.45
Most negative
  1. We went to Afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago.-1.0
  2. The grief is raw.-0.52
  3. I believed that our presence in Afghanistan should be focused on the reason we went in the first place: to ensure Afghanistan would not be used as a base from which to attack our homeland again.-0.28
  4. And along with our partners, we have trained and equipped a standing force of over 300,000 Afghan personnel today and hundreds of thousands over the past two decades.-0.25
  5. Bin Laden is dead, and al Qaeda is degraded in Iraq — in Afghanistan.-0.2
Most objective
  1. So, in keeping with that agreement and with our national interests, the United States will begin our final withdrawal — begin it on May 1 of this year.1.0
  2. They’ve paid a tremendous price on our behalf.1.0
  3. We went to Afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago.1.0
  4. We have to track and disrupt terrorist networks and operations that spread far beyond Afghanistan since 9/11.1.0
  5. And we’ll continue to support the rights of Afghan women and girls by maintaining significant humanitarian and development assistance.0.88
Most subjective
  1. I’m speaking to you today from the Roosevelt — the Treaty Room in the White House.0.0
  2. The cause was just.0.0
  3. Our NATO Allies and partners rallied beside us.0.0
  4. I flew to Afghanistan, to the Kunar Valley — a rugged, mountainous region on the border with Pakistan.0.0
  5. We did that.0.0

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