Stuck on our own flypaper

Wasn't the logic of flypaper, one of the cooked up ex post rationales for invading Iraq, that a war there would attract all the super-duper evildoers to one place, thus making all of them fight concentrated US firepower? But this wasn't meant to be something that the US imposed on itself:

[New York Times] Insurgents opened a new front in Mosul and killed 13 in a Baghdad car bomb, while U.S. troops moved into Falluja's south.