“If there is truth to this, I believe the rationale behind it was to attract all the Islamic radicals worldwide into a single focal point so they can be stamped out. This would have been an easier option than trying to take them out one hy one as they popped up.”
That is like saying you want a huge cancer on your leg because you can isolate and eradicate it there. Of course, it works better if that is your enemy’s leg.
Not at all.
It is more costly for a nation to try and stop individual terrorists than it is for those individual terrorists to act out their crimes.
We can either use whole US departments on individual terrorists and try to find them or attract them all to a single region and get them all at once.