US Department of Duuuuuuh

The Washington Post is reporting the following this morning:

The insurgency in Iraq continues to baffle the U.S. military and intelligence communities, and the U.S. occupation has become a potent recruiting tool for al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, top U.S. national security officials told Congress yesterday.

Forgive me for harping on this point but: Duuuuuuuuuuuh!

Wasn't the foreign occupation of an Islamic country how the world ended up with Osama in the first place?

"What experience and history teach is this- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."
-G.F.W. Hegel (from Philosophy of History)

In case you didn't catch it the first time: Duuuuuuuuuuuh!