I understand the sarcasm and even empathize with some of it.
In your list, besides China, Korea and Japan certainly did maalish of the Amreekis. Billions and billions were spent post WWII in Japan and also in South Korea after the 1951 Korean War. Same kind of aid came our way too but instead of putting that aid to work, we wasted it on short term upsides.
China grew because of the US market access. They had products which the American consumers wanted. Please remind me what we have on offer.
I will never disagree with the need to cut down imports, increase exports, invest in education and manufacturing, however all of these are known to every single government that has come our way. Maybe you will say PTI was better, I agree, they were better but still not good enough. Maybe they needed more time, I agree with that too. But they too were going to IMF...there was no other alternate. So what of PTI's plan was any different except that they were not going to get much help from the IMF?
I understand the urge to keep on bringing up the drones and handing people over. Please remind me which native "Pakistani citizen" was captured by our own intelligence agencies and handed over to the Americans. By Pakistani, I don't mean dual citizens. On the drone attacks, we paid a price because we supported Taliban in our tribal areas. You think our denials were going to stop the Americans from taking action against what they saw as supply routes and bases where Taliban were recuperating? What did you want Pakistan to do? Start a war with the Americans over Taliban in our FATA? Americans were waiting for just such a bait to be taken so they could come in and teach Pakistan a hard lesson for supporting Taliban. So I come back to the pragmatism of the situation. You can appeal all you want to Pakistanis' emotions but that does not remove the hard reality that has faced us all these years.