Could you quote one friend of the USA other than France ? (beware, there is a trap)
Being "friends" is a two way street thus, whether France like America or not is irrelevant, the Yanks can't stand the Frogs!!!
I'll put forward Taiwan as a friend of the USA, (and that took no thought whatsoever), Japan are pretty keen too...
As to "what the French did in the Falklands, Sir John Nott, (the defense Secretary at the time), said in his book:-
"In so many ways Mitterrand and the French were our greatest allies," Sir John says. As soon as the conflict began, France made available to Britain Super-Etendard and Mirage aircraft - which it had supplied to Argentina - so Harrier pilots could train against them.
The French gave Britain information on the Exocet - which sank the Sheffield and Atlantic Conveyor - showing how to tamper with it.
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Does that make me "all warm and fuzzy" about the French? Not at all, they knew darned well that if they didn't help us deal with the threat posed by weapons they had sold to an unstable government then they would suffer in the future in dealings in Europe. IOW, it wasn't a magnanimous gesture from the heart, they were still looking at cold, hard cash.