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The modest national effort exerted to contain Serbia and its depredations in the Balkans between 1995 and 1999, for example, was orders of magnitude larger than that devoted to al Qaeda.
White coats seemed scarcely less ominous than white hoods, and fervid anti-psychiatrists like Szasz and Foucault inflamed lovers of freedom against the depredations of nosology.