So true.
UK give a shilly shally statement usually. US on the other hand takes the 'thaikaidari' of the world and discusses everything much frankly and openly.
There's a daily state dept. briefing everyday for about an hour where the press can ask any questions. Out of that 50 minutes or so of that day where that statement was made, Pakistan, IK and Nawaz Sharif was discussed for about a minute. Rest they talked in detail about turkey, russia, isil, ukrain, mh17 and so many other things.
But you said it correctly, in a closed society like pakistan, s3x doesn't sell that openly, but in its place twisted stuff like anti-american sentiment does even faster.
I usually skim through their briefings sometimes, but I watched all of it from that day. In that one minute discussion about 'dharna' that day, there was something else funny that happened too.. maybe IK was angry on that (I would be if someone forgot my name).
I've uploaded the video here.