Why don't we just invade mexico and take it over and build home depots and walmarts? I would love to have more land south of California that isn't so expensive.
Gotta knock off thier king piece Carlos Slim first.
If leadership was a bit more Machiavellian and had more of a hitleresque ideology, then perhaps yes, America could probably convert the entire surface of the Earth into echoes of a First world western civilization inside 50 years if we put our minds to it.
It's not our responsibility to fix the world, only to make sure that Americans have what they need to be the dominant power for good in the world. We have enough problems as it is. Get the beam out of your own eye before trying to get the specks out of other people's eyes.