The kids are the most important to win the hearts and minds of.
On the other hand, Germany, Japan, and South Korea have developed strong governments and economies under our tutelage. The history of the world shows much progress under empires. In fact, the only long period of peace was the Pax Romana. If the truth were told, we would stop wringing our hands about why AlQaeda hates us. We would realize that Washington is teaming with delegations from all over the world that are begging us to come in and remake their countries in our image. That is what the West Africans and the North Koreans wanted. Why not? We have shown that we can turn heaps of rubble into world leaders and then we leave.