Nope, no surprise here:

The U.S. troop buildup in Iraq has yielded modest progress but a rise in suicide bombings helps make the ultimate success of the security crackdown uncertain, the top U.S. commander in the country said in remarks published Sunday.

Gen. David Petraeus and other senior U.S. officers in Iraq told The Washington Post in interviews that the increase in U.S. and Iraqi troops since February had improved security in Baghdad and the restive Anbar province but that attacks had risen sharply in other regions.

They said it was critical that Iraqi leaders make the political compromises needed to ensure long-term stability.

President George W. Bush has committed almost 30,000 additional troops mostly to Baghdad, the center of violence between minority Sunnis and majority Shiites, for a major U.S.-Iraqi offensive aimed at halting a descent into all-out civil war. (emphasis mine)

Improved security in Baghdad = worse security elsewhere?  Gee, what’s next, is someone going to tell me water is wet?

This same thing has been happening for the past few years.  A “major offensive” is launched in one area, and attacks go up elsewhere; that operation ends, and attackers come right back to that area.  Far as I can recall, the only time where attacks didn’t go right back up after a major troop movement was in Fallujah, and that one was basically an indiscriminate purging…so what’s that tell you?

This needs to end, ASAP.  It can’t even be argued that the occupation is about going after the foreign jihadis that streamed into Iraq after the invasion, because the latest indications are Iraqis are turning against them.  These people want nothing more than for the foreigners in their country — whether US or the jihadi kind, they don’t care — to get the fuck OUT, how hard is that to comprehend?