Obama gives key to bringing warring sides together ??

Your president went to Belfast, Northern Ireland recently where he gave a speech. 

If you're under 35 or not up on overseas politics you need to know that for three decades Belfast was the main site of a long battle between Catholics and Protestants.  Northern Ireland was (and is) part of Great Britain, and the fight was mostly over whether it should become part of the adjoining Irish Republic, which is Catholic.  Ireland served as the source of arms and recruiting for this three-decade war, which made wide use of terrorist tactics like car bombs and attacks on unarmed civilians.  After 3,500 deaths the sides realized no end was in sight and the conflict finally ended (essentially) in 1998.

Here's what Obama said (search site for "segregated"):

[S]egregated schools and housing, lack of jobs and opportunity -- symbols of history that are a source of pride for some and pain for others -- these are not tangential to peace; they’re essential to it. If towns remain divided -- if Catholics have their schools and buildings, and Protestants have theirs -- if we can’t see ourselves in one another, if fear or resentment are allowed to harden, that encourages division. It discourages cooperation.

So in effect he's telling his audience that opposing religious groups need to mingle, go to school together, live in mixed communities and so on.  And I'm thinking, that was really a good speech.  What he said was SO perceptive, so...COOL!  The Dems who called him a "Lightworker" were spot-on!

In fact, it was SO good that I'm looking forward to him making this same speech in the middle east to Sunnis and Shiites--who I'm sure will be equally impressed with his enlightenment and insight.  After all, if it's good advice to two subdivisions of Christianity it should be equally relevant to two opposing sects of Islam, right?

So what do you think the odds are that he'll tell Muslims the same thing? 

Ain't gonna happen.  Because doing so would call attention to their barbarity, use of terror tactics, and intolerance.

And Lord knows Obama can't have that.