On September 19, Marc Polymeropoulos, nonresident senior fellow at Forward Defense, joined NBC News’ Raf Sanchez and retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey to discuss Israel’s military strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon after the waves of walkie-talkies and pagers explosions.

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