What I'm about to say does not necessarily represent the views of the United States government. It's my own personal opinion.
I was in Rome at the Holy See at the end of September, and what I saw was an immense need for coordination among allies on this issue. There is not the type of central coordination across nations that we need to have.
I say all the time that it's like a car accident. Trauma surgeons have a golden hour after the car accident. We're still in the golden hour, but the golden hour is slipping away on these kids. They will never be easier to find and never easier to return.
I have done child identification work related to Guatemala that took decades. It took DNA, and many of the parents were dead by the time we found them. I don't want to see that happen here, but right now, in the absence of international coordination that's proactive and extremely expansive in terms of the four missions here: There's a hostage rescue mission, a law enforcement mission, a psychosocial support mission and an ID-missing-persons mission.
Each of those is extremely hard. Our minimum number is 10 times the size of 9/11 in terms of identifying missing persons.