My opinion, and that's all it is, is that we, the US, gives far too much support for and to nations that detest us and talk about us behind our backs. There is always, though, certain reason(s) for such support that maybe we don't know or understand. Still on the surface I don't agree with it but I also support our President and Congressmen who are elected and in doing that will abide with their decisions regarding such support but there are plenty of people in the South right now that need support also.
As for Pakistan, friend or foe, I would say both. There are some in the government that are friends to the US and there are obviously many that are foes and many of those have cost countless numbers of American lives and prolonged the lives of many of our enemies, all while pretending to be our friends.
Kudo's to President Obama though for sticking with something he said he would do. Going into Pakistan if he had verifiable info as to where Osama was. I don't know if President Bush would have done the same without consulting the Pakistan President and tipping our hat as to what was going to happen. So from this standpoint I do feel that Obama was the man we needed in the White House to get this job done and he deserves congratulations for doing so. He was also intelligent enough not to follow through on other promises he made and in keeping Gitmo open. I have not doubt that Obama's eyes were widely opened once he began to get intelligence briefings and be in the real know.