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I am sick of hearing this rubbish. Let us get few things clear.
Smaller countries have less ability to negotiate a independent path. Pakistan is relatively smaller country. Pakistan sought convergence with US and it was entirely right thing to do. I think the Pakistani disposition to US has been entirely beneficial. Kids here on PDF don't understand this. We have milched USA like a cow. Without US help Pakistan would have fallen apart by late 1950s under Indian pressure. You must remember the part that of British India that became Pakistan had zero industry and had only come under British control 98 years before that. Large parts were wild and unruly. The only thing going for Pakistan was it ended up with a large military on account of British preferance for recruiting from region coterminous to Pakistan.
However that large military was unsustainable. Prior to 1947 all of British India paid for the British Indian Army. Most of this revenue came from what became your India. In a sense your India subsidised what became Pakistan by the fact that huge numbers in the service of the Raj earned their salaries which diffused in their home villages and that kept the local economies going. Post 1947 this money transfer came to a end.
So it wasfor this reason Ayub Khan latched on to Uncle Sam's teat. USA taxpayer then bankrolled Pakistan Army, paid for everything from rifles to tanks to jeeps to even building military cantonments. PAF was virtually Uncle Sam's baby. It might as well have been the USAF air arm in Asia. US build airbases, trained pilots, gave advance fighters to the point where Pak got cocky and went to war in 1965.
You know how the buzzword today is CPEC? Well in 1950s/60s we also had a CPEC only this time it was paid by Amrerican grants [not loans] and was far larger then the present CPEC. For instance it paid for a brand new capital Islamabad that Paks even today brag about, dams [Tarbela/Mangla being world class], roads, housing to shelter all those refugees from India who would still have been pooping in the streets and spitting paan. In addition the connection gave Pakistan rights to technical education which included nuclear technology and even missile or space technology. Check out how SUPARCO came into being and who gave the technical help to set it up.
In 1980s Pakistan got additional benefits including the much vaunted F-16s which still patrol the skies and are class above even today compared to the Chinese junk called JF-Thunder. Even more critically being convergent with US gave Pakistan the shield and cover to develop nuclear weapons. The result being Pakistan is the only Muslim country to get nuclear weapons. Others like Iraq got bombed to stone age for even saying the word "nuke".
Yes there have been failures and losses in this convergence with USA but the balance sheet is still positive. Where we lost was directly because we made mistakes and failed to handle the relationship properly. Sadly this being Pakistan instead of introspection we just blame everything on USA. This of course is egged on by a reject politcal class who use USA to clean up their own mistakes.
However that convergence now has turned to divergence and there is little left to milch USA. Time to pull the Chinese teat which of course is now getting fat and rich with milk. So in the way the new and out with the old.
