Saying so in public is not the issue...there is a real disconnect between the aims of the paknationalists and the US...and the US seems relatively clueless about the mindset it is dealing with (meaning I think "paknationalists" understand their American interlocutors better than the average American diplomat understands Pakistan's establishment...in both cases, I am not talking about understanding the people or the society at large).
See, for example: http://www.brownpundits.com/2011/09/...lenial-change/