I find it somewhat unbelievable that most of this forum are unable to walk a single inch in Pakistani shoes.
Normally a nation of 165 million are somewhat immune from military takeover, unlike other football countries like say Finland , Estonia, who are regularly conquered by larger neighbors. But when Pakistan is only 16% of the size of India, they are in the same midget class as Estonia. So we can somewhat understand the foreign relations concerns of Pakistan are 99% concerned with only India. Leaving little Pakistani concerns or sympathy with the problems of the USA.
Worse yet the Pakistani Indian Borders were drawn in some British map room a long time ago, it may suit the convince of the Brits, but it does zero to now describe where the now ethnic divide between the Muslims and the Hindu's are when at the time the British drew a shortsighted border. So now the Indians technically own Kashmir even if its population is mostly Muslim. Making Kashmir a prime bone of contention today as it always been a terrorist magnet since the time of dirt.
But there is little that can be done by either India or Pakistan so to a great extent, Pakistani concerns have shifted to securing its Western border with Afghanistan, And by Pakistan allying to the Taliban had become a wet dream come true, many in the ISI were wary of letting the USA, after 911, of renewed US destabilizing Afghanistan. But the USA promised to fix everything up better than before in jig time, and now US and Nato incompetence have proved the ISI was right.
And the Net effect has been to leave the Pakistani economy and its foreign policy in far worse shape than it was before.
But somehow most of us on this forum seemed to think the USA and Nato bought all of Pakisitan for $24.00 in glass beads.