They'll NEVER be our "friend". They have to fight someone constantly. When it's not us it's the Russians, the Israelis, etc. They've been fighting long before we stepped in and will long after we leave.

Depends what you call friend...the US was caught supplying weapons to Iran during the Iran-contra affair in 1986? Or was that just business?

Lets look at the other "terrorist" states...

Syria- just before the US begins bombing the place, remember they were also a friend - they were a US ally in the first Iraq war and routinely tortured al-qaeda suspects at the behest of the US

Iraq- the US provided huge military and diplomatic support during the Iran/Iraq war

Afghanistan - a US ally right through the cold war and into the 80's with the US funding the Mujahideen to the tune of billions of dollars and essentially using the country as a CIA base

Saudi Arabia - speaks for itself

By the way, the UK wasnt exactly a shining light in the middle east in the not so distant past

Make that the whole Arab peninsula.

Yigido, I could go on with probably another half dozen countries there but why labour a point eh. Its just stupid for people to say invade here and there and wipe this or that country off the map, especially with the knowledge that their leaders pick and choose wars like sweets...Ive heard it over the last 25 years - Im 40 so I'm generally only pointing things out in my "educated" (?!) lifetime.

A slight acknowledgement that US foreign policy is fucked up would be good..from anybody in the US. Its that which has at best contributed to the current world problem and at worst, completely ushered it in, and at worst, deliberately and naively caused it

Got your point

I ended up labouring it anyway..!