Is it me, or is it groundhog day?

I swear that every two weeks the New York Times has some variation of this headline:

Insurgents Using Bigger, More Lethal Bombs, U.S. Officers Say.

This just seems completely inane to me. First of all, the more they do this without anyone figuring out a way to stop them, the better the insurgents will get at it. That's just logic. Second of all, the last time I checked, we were at war with these people. Why does the New York Times continually seem surprised by the fact that they want to bomb our soldiers? Oi.