Restored US military confidence threatens efforts to repair relations with Pakistan

US defense secretary Robert Gates and Pakistan's Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. (File photo)

By JAMES M. DORSEY
SPECIAL TO AL ARABIYA

A sense of restored American military self-confidence is emerging from the wreckage of US-Pakistani relations in the wake of the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden by US Navy SEALs.

That self-confidence had …