text: Why is it that Americans have such difficulty taking the perspective of the other when it comes to foreign policy? This trip is billed, among other things, as a peace mission among world religions in the ME, with a view to unifying everyone against ISIS. Why is the US media not pointing out the insanity of talking unity to Muslims by supporting Sunni (Saudi Arabia, et el) against Shia (Iran)?
  
  Trump continues to support Saudi Arabia, even as it continues to export Wahhabism, the religious foundation of the ISIS ideology of hate and terror; and he condemns Iran, the Islamic country most vigorously fighting ISIS. Intensifying the Sunni/Shia fault line in Islam is a self-defeating policy. 
  
  Obama had it right--one must nurture mutual respect with Shia Iran as well as Sunni Suadi Arabia, even though they are at one another's throats. 
  
  That Trump has this wrong too is no surprise. My concern is the media doesn't seem to give a damn. And in this forum???