Yeah. They also don't carry with them the global context they'd need to correctly interpret these. When I say "Bush spent millions fighting his father's war." (For the record, this is a non-political statement: I'm using a sentence that conveniently explains my point). You and I both immediately gather from the context that "Bush" is not a shrubbery, it's a US president. You then gather that it was Bush Jr. Not H.W. You also gather that the war was the US involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Machines cannot do this in the general sense yet. If you specifically train the machine on data in the domain, and then set it loose on AP stories about the domain they do particularly well, but that's a long ways away from beating human reading comprehension.