"These people"
These people live there.
These people will still live there once we have gone.
These people are losing their neighbors and friends and parents and children.
These people are not the Japanese. They don't have an Emperor to lead them, and they don't have the kind of national identity that makes it easy to avoid civil war in the wake of invasion.
These people are the people with whom the future of the region lies. Not with us. With them.
I don't know what the answer is. I'll tell you what, though: acting and talking like other people's children are expendable is not the way to win their hearts.