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Well than US shouldn't lie to states it calls its allies.. ?I know most of them were non-combatants. Just quoted some ballpark number for POWs. We never claimed to have freed them but we sure take credit for making sure no boundaries are redrawn outside of the battle theater meaning the west.
And please bro let's not dissect the diplomatic moves individually as black and white.
US have always opposed the spread of nuclear weapons outside of the big 5 and we had valid reasons for that. CIA had definite intelligence about the pak move towards nuclearisation and the pressler act was part of that.
Pak had to test nukes.. Coz of india .. Which ironically wasn't sanctioned by US after its tests.. But later.. Even the sanctions on India weren't tough or lasted as long as Pak.. The disposable ally.
During that time our military to military synergy was also at it's peak where we successfully slapped the soviet moves towards warm waters. How do you fit that in your narrative?
Disposable ally?... US used Pak against Soviets and left us with the mess to deal with.. And with sanctions.. Where does that fit bro?
As for the post 2001 threat, it was mostly posturing to make sure that things moved fast in diplomatic circles. No power could have made pakistan agree to set up bases if it didn't had the least bit interest in it. You have to accept it. E.g. You guys stopped our military caravans heading to afganistan and our forces too suffered setbacks that time. Did we bomb you guys that time ? No
Bush threatened Pak with war of we didn't side with US on Afghanistan invasion..
The supplies were blocked in late 2000s after your gunships bombed our border posts martrying over 22 soldiers (not the first time you did that)... How was that justifiable ?
Most importantly, If we wanted to just nuke around countries, we could have just nuked afganisthan straightaway. Why would we nuke pakistan so that we could send conventional forces to afganisthan ? Isn't that ludicrous ? Think about it !
Musharaf actually confesses that in his memoirs .. "In the line of fire"... The whole account.