Will America now define national security as it did half a century ago to see the betterment of others' conditions as key to ensuring its own safety and well-being? Or will it be satisfied merely to aggressively police the frontiers of hostility at home and abroad to reduce the likelihood of a new terrorist-inflicted disaster?

Keywords:
Al, Qaeda, extremists, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle, East, Muslim, Osama
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