True but sub-saharan Africa is a major recruiting area for various terrorist groups such as ISIS and numerous warlords. One of the ways in which they recruit people is by finding desperate destitute groups of people and dividing them by blaming all of the problems they face on another group of people usually a minority group such as the LGBT community much like Hitler did to the jewish people. In addition they also try to blame the problems they face on foreigners such as Americans and Europeans using as evidence such as the countless civilian deaths our military drone strikes, bombings, and military raids have caused. Thus one of the best ways to prevent such recruitments is demonstrations of soft power by the United States through things such as diplomacy, aid workers, preventing hate, helping rebuild. This does four things for us. First it helps disprove terrorist propaganda about us being evil. Secondly it helps unify the people for a common goal making it much harder for them to be mislead by terrorist groups in the future. Thirdly it helps give them hope for the future thus again not be as easily misled by terrorism in the future. Finally it also gives us much greater influence over the people im the region because when they become a successful part of the international community they will remember it was the United States that helped get them their and thus will be more likely to listen to us and help us with our goals in the region in the future. Thus it is a very sound strategy in the long term and it is much much cheaper than a military intervention not to mention it makes us look great on the world stage!
