NBC's Richard Engel says boots are already on the ground, embedded with local fighters in Iraq

[MineralMan]

23. Yes. I do too.

Reading with understanding would seem to me to be the first step in deciding what to post here. There's another thread where a poster doesn't understand ISIL and ISIS and the meaning of those acronyms. Somehow, the poster thinks that ISIL was a later term than ISIS, and that the President is getting it wrong by using ISIL.

That reflects a lack of information about what is actually going on and is in indication that that poster has not actually been following this closely at all. Why would someone post something that demonstrates a lack of knowledge? I don't get that at all.

The other thing that often bothers me is someone creating their own headline for a news story that already had an accurate headline. Generally, the new headline created by the poster does not accurately reflect what is in the story. Maybe they think that nobody on DU will actually read even the excerpt, much less click through to the full story. Odd, I think.

There are some puzzling things about DU and that's one of the things that puzzles me the most. Why would someone post something that is just incorrect or misstated?