"Security threats, fractures plague US and Afghans"

Despite the lack of journalistic procedure found in many yahoo! articles, many of the comments reflect the same deficiency of concrete evidence to support their point.

Here in just another yahoo! comment user Simbalips proposes that the U.S. is responsible for President Hamid Karzi’s financial success and corruption. “We have made Karzai a multi-millionaire and set him up as one of the very large drug dealers and he spits in our face. Barry ought to send one of his drones for a visitation and rid the world of another skumbag [sic],” said Simbalips.

The article itself presents absolutely no evidence or discussion relevant to the claim. Even though nearly every comment seems to encompass the same argument – they want all American troops out of the middle east – some are less rationally explained than others.

For instance, user C.B. doesn’t seem to understand the difference between military and border patrol. “We have already lost to [sic] many for nothing. Bring them home and let them protect our borders,” C.B. said. Regardless of the user’s dully justified idea, it garnered hundreds of likes.

In another comment, user William 1 makes quite an irrational claim, albeit more sarcastically put than the others. “Well it sounds more like Karzai got a better deal from china ($),” said William 1. Obviously this was more comedic than serious; however, sarcasm is often hard for many to interpret through print thus making the comment both possibly serious and thought to be serious by many other users.