On a trip to Pakistan a few years agoI was talking to an ex-General about the militant Islamist groups in the region.I asked him why these people, who had happily accepted funds and weapons fromthe United States throughout the Cold War, had become violently anti-Americanovernight. He explained that they were not alone. Many Pakistan officers who hadserved the US loyally from 1951 onwards felt humiliated by Washington’sindifference.