I've always remembered the "townhall" interview Nelson Mandela did on his visit to the USA in 1990.
When a US journalist attempted (to his own embarrassment)to upbraid Mandela on his personal contacts (and those of the ANC) with Cuba (Fidel Castro) and the PLO (Yasser Arafat), he reminded him that:
"one of the mistakes, which some political analysts make, is to think that their enemies should be our enemies"