People like Erdogan, Putin, Trump, Xi ji Ping, Mohd. bin Salman, Modi, and Asim Munir are not born again and again.
The nuclear sanctions against India were imposed in mid 1998. And by early 2000, Bill Clinton did the historic embrace of India. India was always the apple of the American eyes except the Indian planners were too stupid to see that. Also, I don't believe that America, as a State, has ever seen Pakistan as a strategic threat. On the contrary, Pakistan could be and has been a useful tool to get concessions from India time to time.