Only if you ignore that they supported the Taliban and created Al Quida. Only if you ignore that they funded the KLA (before we started under Kliton), they support Iben nu Sayif in the Phillipines. Only if you ignore that they have blocked all FBI investigations and have WMD and 120 ballistic missiles in the western desert. Only if you ignore that they have full control of the media and do nothing to stop the anti-American hate that spews from it daily.
They are as much our friends as a rabbid pit viper.