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No, they don't. First, people and institutions are different. Second, institutions have their sets of incentives (not necessarily coherent) which you must take into account when analysing their behaviour. In particular, the reasons they do things and the reasons they say they do things are often different.
For example, I tend to see the war on terror (as well as the war on drugs, by the way) as a government's way of extending and solidifying its control of the population.
And not to forget, a lot of security contractors getting payed to achieve the 10% of growth that every industry wants for themselves.