If 6/10 IRpakistanis view US as enemy, what is the view among military officers and non-coms?

Why would we have any trouble believing that elements of the Islamic Republic's security state are supplying and planning military/black ops against an enemy operating on their border, in their skies and cities? I should think that few Pakistanis would have trouble with that proposition.

We can get a better reputation among Pakistanis by ascribing all their country's problems to foreigners, as they do; sticking to a blue-sky script about the united Pakistani security services' campaign against terrorism, as they do; and looking right past Pakistani sponsorship of and current reported Pakistani links to terrorist groups, as they do.

It's not an option that offers much to the United States, is it? The Pakistani security services backed Pashtun tribes allied to al Qaeda right up until the point at which they turned on Pakistan, and have not given up support of Afghan Pashtun types trying to overthrow the Afghan government. Their mistake, which by Pakistani logic means someone else has to be blamed.

For a good six years the President of the United States was quite vocal about the wonderful partnership with the President of Pakistan against terrorism. Fat lot of good it did us.

Here is a Pakistani, justifying ‘most of the Pakistanis opposed to US’ by listing the reasons as if it is only because of recent events that Pakistani public is opposed to US when nothing can be further from the truth.

Most of the Pakistani society is Islamic fundamentalist for a long time, contrary to Imtiaz Gul’s look at a small time frame.

Let us just look at say last 15 years or so.

Nobody forced it but Pakistan’s democratic government of Benazir Bhutto chose of its own free will, to facilitate relocation of Osama bin Laden from Sudan to Afghanistan in 1996.

Nobody forced it but Pakistani Army and ISI created what ex-CIA official Bruce Reidel called 'this jihadist Frankenstein monster' on their own with full financing provided by Pakistan’s democratic governments during 1990s.

Al Qaeda, Taliban, LeT, JeM, JuD, HuJi and countless other terror outfits have been spawned in Pakistan, the official ’terror center’ of the world as per CIA with the help, support and sanctuary provided by the Pakistani State that is owned by Pakistani Army that uses ’terrorism’ as an official tool of state policy to further its own objectives.

Osama bin Laden had publicly congratulated Pakistan in 1998 for exploding world’s first Islamic nuclear bomb.

Pakistani Army used to provide military protection to Osama bin Laden during his umpteen visits to Pakistan. Osama bin Laden has received many dialysis treatments at Pakistan’s military hospitals.

Osama bin Laden had made huge campaign contributions to Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s election campaigns in 1990 and 1996. Let us NOT forget that Nawaz Sharif has personally met Osama bin Laden at least three times in Saudi Arabia at Nawaz Sharif’s own request.

Not long ago, Pervez Hoodhbhoy, a professor in Islamabad University wrote the following:

For three decades, deep tectonic forces have been silently tearing Pakistan away from the Indian subcontinent and driving it towards the Arabian peninsula. This continental drift is not physical but cultural, driven by a belief that Pakistan must exchange its South Asian identity for an Arab-Muslim one. This change is by design. Twenty-five years ago, the Pakistani state used Islam as an instrument of state policy. Prayers in government departments were deemed compulsory, floggings were carried out publicly, punishments were meted out to those who did not fast in Ramadan, selection for academic posts in universities required that the candidate demonstrate a knowledge of Islamic teachings and jihad was declared essential for every Muslim. Today, government intervention is no longer needed because of a spontaneous groundswell of Islamic zeal. The notion of an Islamic state – still in an amorphous and diffused form – is more popular now than ever before as people look desperately for miracles to rescue a failing state.

Even the Pew poll released on August 13, 2009 was an eye-opener even if it tried to put a positive spin on its findings -
1. 64% of Pakistanis consider US an enemy and only 9% Pakistanis consider US a friend. By contrast 57% Pakistanis consider Taliban an enemy and 41% Pakistanis consider Al Qaeda an enemy, the very groups that are supposed to be engaged in killing Pakistanis.
2. Positive attitude by Pakistanis about US caring about Pakistan has gone up from 21% under Bush to 22% under Obama after Obama’s Cairo speech and 23 billion dollar US aid package to Pakistan.
3. 78% of Pakistanis believe that any one who converts to another religion from Islam shall be killed.

So we aren’t talking about a small percentage of extremists who hijacked Islam (Mr Bush’s phrase) or don’t represent the true Islam (Mr Obama’s phrase) but rather about the interpretation of Islam that is mainstream among these people. As interesting as these figures are, the interpretation is even more significant, not only for US policy towards South Asia but for understanding where Western perceptions of the world have gone wrong.

Purposeful killing of civilians is terrorism and murder.

America, Russia, Israel and India have supported this. There is ample evidence available from Palestine, Bosnia, Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan to Kashmir.

Terrorism and murder is wrong.

Is this difficult to understand?

Obtuse rationalizations do not hide the simple fact that America, Russia, Israel and India supports "terrorism", as is commonly defined.

Firstly what the world should understand is Pakistan itself is a victim of what is called 'terrorism'. Millions die in the country but no one seems to pay any attention to that. However, if one attack goes off in the Western world, the news is spread like theres no tomorrow. Hence, not only is 'terrorism' a threat to the rest of the world, its the biggest one to Pakistan.
Secondly, in the Soviet - Afghan ten year war from 1979-1989, US was one of the countries that helped who they then called 'mujahideen' , to fight against the Soviets. They 'helped' them by providing them with weapons and trained them to fight. They promised them a life of peace and democracy and when the war ended, the US left the country isolated. The only rational reason for the US to help Afghanistan at that time was to make sure the Soviet Union did not become a threat to the US in terms of power.
The US, in another example, invaded Iraq claiming to spread democracy and not only killed millions in the process, also destroyed the entire country. In this case, the obvious reason - It invaded a country that contains over 112 billion barrels of proven oil reserves -
Is this really the definition of democracy in the eyes of the US?
The above comment mentions Pakistan helped the Taliban. Pakistan did not help them, they rather used them towards their conflict in Kashmir. They did exactly what the US had previously done.
Coming back to Pakistan, every country's policy is built in its own manner and agreements with other countries are made on the basis of making sure their sovereignty is not hurt. If Pakistanis are reluctant towards the actions of the US, no one can blame them since the US, as history tells us has not always been the best in promoting democracy.

Simply policy prescriptions are not going to change the underlying problem with Pakistani identity. Pakistan was created to be Not India. Pakistanis are taught in school to hate India and Hindus. Pakistani military is obsessed with desire to harm India. Islamic supremacism against Hindu India is the openly stated cultural and political foundation of the state of Pakistan.

Most civilizations - whether secular, Christian, Hindu or Chinese are moving towards the principle of - Do No Harm. That is not the case with Islam or Pakistan. They are on a road to destruction both for themselves and others.

Pakistan is indeed the biggest victim of terrorism, BUT it is also home to the world's most , homegrown , nurtured terrorists in the world! ISI and CIA created Mujahedeen in the 1980's, but ISI and Pak army kept them after USSR left Afganistan. There are terrorist organizations with camps in heart land of Pakistan where terrorists killing and murdering citizens in India, get trained, and the local population gives them support and the govt. patronage. Even after Mumbai attacks one a single terror camp has been closed! Though 5 Pakistani Americans have been sentenced for terrorism related charges within months of their arrest. Most mumbai 26/11 accused in Pakistan are still not punished. Don't get fooled by what Pakistan says, look at what it does. Terror training camps are still open and thriving in Pakistan. Most wanted Indian criminals have found a refuge in Pakistan. Most if not all Afgan leaders say, terror heavens in Pakistan are the real source of terror. Any sane person who follows world politics is aware of the double game Pakistan is playing. Lets differentiate Pak citizens from its govt. i don't mean the citizens, but all , almost all Pak institutions are obsessed with Strategic depth and terminally consumed by their hatred to India. Pakistani army runs about 70% of the country's economy, which isn't going to change any time soon. Hence embrace everyone , we are in for hell of a bumpy ride!