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Talbott felt that the only remaining sticks were additional sanctions that would have bankrupted the Pakistanis, a dangerous move that could have brought "total chaos" to a nuclear-armed country with a significant number of Islamic radicals.
Having seen pan-Arabism bankrupted in 1967, more and more Arabs are seeking solutions from the past--in Islamic fundamentalism, which seeks to remodel Muslim societies along the lines of Arabia under the Prophet Mohammed.
President Clinton has spent $10 million on legal fees; has been forced to answer repellent, invasive questions under oath; has had every private embarrassment announced to the world in the guise of "court documents"; and has watched helplessly as his closest friends and aides have been barbecued and bankrupted by hostile lawyers.
You do have to keep people from cheating, and you do have to keep deadbeats like Adnan Khashoggi--who bankrupted the Sands in 1983 by not paying his markers--from skipping out on their debts.
Aurangzeb streamlined the lax administration of his predecessors, but he almost bankrupted the realm with his campaigns to expand the empire down to the south, and his battles against rebels in the north.