After the US forces tracked down Osama bin Laden to a three-storey house in Abbottabad, not too far from Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, monitored the premises for months and finally swooped down to kill him in the early hours of last Monday, there is much shock in the American media at Pakistan’s “betrayal”. After all, the American tax-payers have shelled out nearly $21 billion since 2001 in aid to Pakistan following the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.